BONKERS BRAINSTORM by Jonathan Chou

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choucjonathan — 2021-10-03 19:57:01 UTC

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choucjonathan — 2021-10-03 20:01:00 UTC

From the patient perspective

choucjonathan — 2021-10-03 21:42:33 UTC

- The importance of honesty in counseling and feeling comfortable sharing and being vulnerable
- The way that mental health implicates identity is unique
- Experience of one's agency being foreclosed by whole set-up of psychiatry

Perceived "paradoxes" between NM and psychiatry

choucjonathan — 2021-10-03 21:43:59 UTC

An "uneasy" relationship between narrative medicine and psychiatry

- The foregrounding of developing trust between patients and mental health professionals for the sake of therapy <> the notion of never knowing others/being able to fully know another, as we are taught in NM
- Knowing when to disclose, knowing when to push for more

(Re)enchantment

choucjonathan — 2021-10-03 21:45:52 UTC

Narrowness of psychiatry training insofar as focus on med management vs therapy
"Mental illness as a medical illness" - biological psychiatry

What does it mean to re-enchant psychiatry in this context?

Rejuvenation in one's work

choucjonathan — 2021-10-03 21:46:23 UTC

Alienation from one's colleagues vs. a way of being with others that makes you feel rejuvenated/finding a community where one feels rejuvenated

Trainees

choucjonathan — 2021-10-03 21:49:02 UTC

- Alienation is diffuse and pervasive in psychiatry
- Feeling alienated from patients, in psychiatry alienated from rest of medicine, alienated from practicing narrative medicine as a psychiatrist, alienated as an outpatient psychiatrist, alienated from own's self and body

Community & loneliness

choucjonathan — 2021-10-03 21:49:59 UTC

From a trainee standpoint, a strange loneliness in the psychiatry community as a narrative medicine practitioner/alumnx

One would think that psychiatry/psychology is a "natural" home/partner for NM, yet NM is not always well-received in psychiatry

Alienation

leachteach1 — 2021-10-05 20:52:02 UTC