The healing art of writing

Perspectives in Medical Humanities publishes peer reviewed scholarship produced or reviewed under the auspices of the University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, a multi-campus collaborative of faculty, students, and trainees in the humanities, medicine, and health sciences. Our series invites scholars from the humanities and health care professions to share narratives and analysis on health, healing, and the contexts of our beliefs and practices that impact biomedical inquiry.

Journal for Learning through the Arts

Medical Humanities, 2008

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"Poetry in Principle: Essays in Poetics," foreword by Edward S. Casey, 2018

The essay explores the poetics of healing and the healing of and through poiesis and is a work in the poetics of thinking. Published in the collection "Poetry in Principle: Essays in Poetics," foreword by Edward S. Casey (New York: Dispatches Editions/Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2018) from a previous version at the online journal "Dispatches from the Poetry Wars" (January 19, 2018).

South Dakota Medicine, 2017

English from a respected university. His literary interests were Protean, good writing nourished his soul and poetry was something he would quote from time to time bespeaking a unique understanding of contextual meaning. I was greatly disappointed, then, when a very early draft was met with the good doctor's scorn. He had other irons in the fire, he said, and had little patience for amateurish meddling in something so important.

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2017

The vast range of poetry by people with serious illness or by those in the aftermath of catastrophic injury testifies to the fact that poetry helps people cope with the pain, fear, humiliation, and sense of loss that often come with illness. Their words can provide valuable information for caregivers. Clinicians who read poetry become better listeners. Poetry inclines one to notice how a thing is said; in the practice of poetry, how becomes as important as what. A poem can deliver information that is in its way more precise than the notes clinicians are trained to record on a chart. Close reading of poetry by patients has become a part of medical education in many medical schools, and needs to be more widely integrated. As the examples in this chapter show, poems can provide exactly the “anecdotal evidence” that may make a decisive difference in the course of healing by complementing statistical data or other forms of “hard” evidence.

2020

Expressing trauma and pain through poetry allows the writer to synthesize ideas and emotions that would otherwise never be spoken into existence. This synthesis allows the discloser to disclose adverse personal challenges to others and to heal. In medicine, complex themes of life and death are interlocked with the narrative of the patient and their loved ones. By acknowledging the unique experience they are going through, the patient's loved one can pull together the shattered, disparate pieces of their life to form a necessarily new version of themselves. My collection of poems will distill my ideas, attitudes, and emotions through the course of an adverse personal challenge. By speaking these otherwise unspoken truths into the world, I am sharing these experiences with others and allowing them to be involved in my healing process. This idea of healing adds on to the archaic belief that we must face challenges alone by allowing healing on a social level. During poetic expression, I have personally experienced the greatest depth of emotions ranging from accomplishment, sadness, fear, surprise, and joy. Through this explorative process, I have become more empathetic and self-aware.

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 2003

I ture into the field in the previous issue, we are confident that readers will be not only moved but entertained by the distinctive characters in each of these pieces. We intend to publish a series of pieces relating to cancer in the next CBMH. Submissions of poetry, short fiction, and personal narrative (no more than five pages double-spaced) are invited, and should be sent to: