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Telling Their Stories
Broadcast starting week of June 18, 2008
This week on The Infinite Mind: Telling Their Stories. We will take a look at the value of brining personal narrative into medical care.
We will hear from Rita Charon, the Director and Founder of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University's Department of Medicine, along with one of her patients; Rafael Campo, director of the Harvard Program in the Medical Humanities; James W. Pennebaker. Professor and Chair Department of Psychology The University of Texas Austin; and Dr. Craig Irvine, director of education at Center for Family Medicine at Columbia and a core faculty member at Columbia's Program in Narrative Medicine.We are also joined by Dr. Dan McAdams, professor of psychology and human development at Northwestern University. His research focuses on how adults construct narratives to give shape and meaning to their lives. He looks at the way the story is told -- its structure and content -- and its correlation with various indexes of personal and social functioning. He has written or edited 12 books, including The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By, which won the American Psychological Association's 2006 William James Award.
