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(SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture.) Edited by Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon. 308 pp. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2008. $89.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-7914-7351-1 (cloth); 978-0-7914-7352-8 (paper).

The emerging interdisciplinary field of narrative medicine has benefited in recent years from media attention and from formal institutional support. Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine is a collection of recent scholarly research in the field by professors of literature and the humanities, as well as by practicing physicians, psychotherapists, and patients — with some authors holding credentials in several camps. What is unique to this volume, as coeditor Peter Rudnytsky emphasizes in his excellent introduction, is the integration of psychoanalysis into the literature–medicine dyad.

The first chapter, written by coeditor Rita Charon, is a useful overview of recent initiatives to introduce . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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