Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the University of Florida and editor of the journal American Imago. Rita Charon is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and coeditor of the journal Literature and Medicine.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Peter L. Rudnytsky   

Part I Contextualizing Narrative Medicine

1. Where Does Narrative Medicine Come From? Drives, Diseases, Attention and the Body
Rita Charon            

2. Desire and Obesity: Dickens, Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, and Psychoanalysis
Sander L. Gilman                

Part II Psychoanalytic Interventions

5. "The Past Is a Foreign Country": Some Uses of Literature in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue
Vera J. Camden

6. It's Really More Complicated Than You Imagine: Narratives of Real and Imagined Trauma
Bennett Simon

7. Narrative and Feminine Empathy: James to Kristeva
Janet Sayers

8. The Fortunate Physician: Learning from Our Patients
Fred L. Griffin

9. Learning How to Tell
Lisa J. Schnell

10. Imagining Immunity
Ed Cohen

11. A Perspective on the Role of Stories as a Mechanism of Meta-Healing
Kimberly R. Myers

12. The Discourse of Disease: Patient Writing at the "University of Tuberculosis"
Jean S. Mason

Part IV Acts of Reading

13. The Teaching Cure
Jeffrey Berman

14. Reading, Listening, and Other Beleaguered Practices in General Psychiatry
Neil Scheurich

15. Uncertain Truths: Resistance and Defiance in Narrative
Schuyler W. Henderson

16. Narrative and Beyond
Geoffrey Hartman

Afterword

Material and Metaphor: Narrative Treatment for the Embodied Self
Rita Charon

Notes on Contributors
Index