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Narrative Medicine

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Narrative Medicine
An emerging clinical discipline that studies patient narrative phenomena as a platform for improving interactions between doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, and other caregivers


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So perhaps FMS was written into existence; meanwhile, my colleagues and I have found that patients can write themselves back toward health using narrative medicine, a process of writing and telling our life stories, as well as meditation and spiritual guidance.
They relate the development of narrative medicine to relationship-centered care, arguing that narrative medicine can help physicians to develop the skills required to practice relationship-centered care, such as reading and telling complex stories, writing reflectively, compassionate presence, and exercising the moral imagination.
In their early research, therefore, Breuer and Freud develop a form of narrative medicine where the sufferer of trauma remembers both imagined and real traumatic events and gives verbal utterance to these painful memories, utterance that effects a cathartic emotional discharge.
 
 
 
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