Emily Martin
This fascinating book throws new light on the potential of psychiatry to help patients navigate today’s complex world. Lewis offers practical and effective ways to incorporate therapies that—while not denying the merits of pharmaceutical remedies—can draw on the immense benefits of helping patients build narrative accounts of their lives.
Emily Martin, Ph.D., author of Bipolar Expeditions
From the Publisher
Lewis has captured and articulated a method of working with patients that is at once intuitive to seasoned practitioners, while also directing them to novel areas of thinking about and working with patients.—John Z. Sadler, M.D., author of Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis
This fascinating book throws new light on the potential of psychiatry to help patients navigate today’s complex world. Lewis offers practical and effective ways to incorporate therapies that—while not denying the merits of pharmaceutical remedies—can draw on the immense benefits of helping patients build narrative accounts of their lives.—Emily Martin, Ph.D., author of Bipolar Expeditions
Lewis achieves a dazzling unity of the sciences, the stories, and the craft of the human search not only for health but for meaning. What a doctor he must be, to face the suffering, to recognize the one who suffers, to bring to bear on that suffering a bounty of knowledge within a wealth of frames. This book not only opens doors for a discipline; it speaks to all of us of freedom.—Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., author of Narrative Medicine
John Z. Sadler
Lewis has captured and articulated a method of working with patients that is at once intuitive to seasoned practitioners, while also directing them to novel areas of thinking about and working with patients.
John Z. Sadler, M.D., author of Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis
Rita Charon
Lewis achieves a dazzling unity of the sciences, the stories, and the craft of the human search not only for health but for meaning. What a doctor he must be, to face the suffering, to recognize the one who suffers, to bring to bear on that suffering a bounty of knowledge within a wealth of frames. This book not only opens doors for a discipline; it speaks to all of us of freedom.
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., author of Narrative Medicine