In his book Sapiens: A brief history of humankind [1], Yuval Noah Harari states and points out when in our…
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This site wants to gather the ancient structure of agora, the Greek word indicating the square where experts and common citizens can meet to exchange thoughts, experiences, and project on Narrative Medicine.
Medicinanarrativa.eu wants to be a dynamic and brave (precisely not agoraphobic) community in collecting and reporting narratives of patients, physicians, and all healthcare professionals dedicating themselves to create health and heal disease.
“Often patients suffer by different things from those indicated on clinical chart. If we think about that, many of their sufferings could be soothed”.
Florence Nightingale
For us too, clinical anamnesis is not sufficient to take care of a person. We need careful and deep listening for a social anamnesis. And unconditioned acceptance of the person.
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Nowadays, research on the Arts' impact on health and well-being is continuously increasing; however, awareness of the evidence of these…
We are pleased to present an interview to two healthcare professionals who made the Art in care settings experience possible: Massimo…
Proposing the concrete experience of beauty in hospitals means not to focus on the exteriority of things, but to concentrate…
by Maria Giulia Marini and Alessandra Fiorencis The studies of the beneficial effects of the Arts on the organism, from the visual (drawing,…
We are glad to present an interview with Giskin Day, principal teaching fellow in the School of Medicine at Imperial…
We are glad to host an interview with Stephen Legari, art therapist at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada)…
The article Narrative Research Evolving: Evolving Through Narrative Research, by Anne Bruce, Rosanne Beuthin, Laurene Sheilds, Anita Molzahn, Kara Schick-Makaroff, draws on the experience…