Narrative Medicine Basic Workshop Resources: October 11-13, 2019

Participant Resources

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Follow-up Resources

General Resources

Pre-Readings: Required

  • Two Men Arrive in A Village by Zadie Smith

    • Note: This will be discussed in the Saturday morning small group

  • A Sense of Story, or Why Teach Reflective Writing?, by Rita Charon, MD, PhD & Nellie Hermann, MFA

  • Chapter 5, “Deliver Us from Certainty: Training for Narrative Ethics,” by Craig Irvine, PhD and Rita Charon, MD, PhD, from The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

  • Chapter 7, “Close Reading: The Signature Method of Narrative Medicine,” by Rita Charon, MD, PhD, from The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

  • Chapter 2, “This Is What We Do, and These Things Happen: Literature, Experience, Emotion, and Relationality in the Classroom,” by Maura Spiegel, PhD and Danielle Spencer, MS, from The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

  • Narrative Permeability: Crossing the Dissociative Barrier in and out of Films, by Arthur Heiserman, PhD & Maura Spiegel, PhD

  • The Aquarium, by Aleksandar Hemon

  • Film: Departures

    • Note: This is important to watch ahead of time, as it is used in the Saturday morning lecture

    • When his orchestra disbands, Daigo Kobayashi moves back to his hometown and takes a job preparing corpses for burial. Too embarrassed to admit his new career to his family, Daigo keeps his profession a secret, until he’s faced with the death of someone close to him. Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film.

    • Ways to watch the film (We are providing these as possible options for viewing the film, but responsibility is on participants to access the film by whatever means is best for them):

      • Rent or Buy Departures on Amazon Instant Video

      • Rent or Buy Departures on Google Play

      • Stream Free on Tubi TV