CFP: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine (no deadline noted; 2/19/04-2/22/04)

Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
A Conference at the University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
February 19 - 22, 2004

Featured Speakers:

Jeffrey Berman
Rita Charon
Jody Messler Davies
Sander L. Gilman
Bennett Simon
Mark Solms
Ellen Handler Spitz
Abraham Verghese
Frans de Waal

This conference will bring together physicians and other health-care
professionals, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, and scholars of the
humanities around a set of questions about the interrelations among
their respective disciplines. Narrative medicine, a term coined by Dr.
Rita Charon, conveys the realization that the art of medicine is
saturated with narrative practices, not only in the creation of a
therapeutic alliance between physician and patient but also in teaching
others about illness and in entering into public discourse about how
medicine should be practiced in our culture. By training physicians to
listen more empathically and to see case histories as narratives,
narrative medicine seeks to enhance their capacity for self-reflection
and thus the quality of the care they provide.

In many ways, psychoanalysis is a quintessential embodiment of narrative
medicine. Famously described by Josef Breuer's patient Anna O. as a
"talking cure," psychoanalysis is founded on the proposition that
emotional suffering can be alleviated through discourse. It was
integral to Freud's vision that psychoanalysis could be a natural
science even though he realized that his case histories resembled works
of literature. Besides being a mode of clinical practice,
psychoanalysis has had a profound influence on literary studies and
indeed on all areas of modern culture. The question of how or whether a
bridge can be constructed between the arts and the sciences of healing
today lies at the heart of our interdisciplinary gathering.

To complement the lectures by our outstanding plenary speakers, we
invite papers from all interested participants on any aspect of the
broad range of themes relevant to the conference. All proposed papers
will be accepted and placed in an appropriate seminar to be led by one
of the plenary speakers. (It is not, however, necessary to submit a
paper in order to register for and participate in the conference.)
These papers will be posted on the conference website as they are
received and thereby made available in advance of the conference.
Participants will be expected to read the papers of other members of the
seminar to which they have been assigned. The seminars will be limited
to no more than eighteen participants and will take place on either
Friday or Saturday afternoon.

For additional information visit the conference website:
http://www.english.ufl.edu/pnm
Registration and Paper Proposal information should be directed to Peter
L. Rudnytsky, plr_at_english.ufl.edu, Department of English, University of
Florida, PO Box 117310, Gainesville, FL 32611-7310, 352-392-0777

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