Open AccessHumanizing Patients through Narrative Approaches: The Case of Murphy, the “Motor-Mouth”
Author(s) -
Michael Pickren Valenti,
Lewis MehlMadrona
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the permanente journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.445
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1552-5775
pISSN - 1552-5767
DOI - 10.7812/tpp/09-143
Subject(s) - narrative , perspective (graphical) , medicine , psychoanalysis , psychology , visual arts , literature , art
Some psychiatric patients are presented as hopeless, burned out, and devoid of social graces. Staff of mental health centers and hospitals are not encouraged to view these people differently. A narrative perspective allows anyone to emerge as a richly complex human being.
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