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“Writing has the capacity to allow you to dip in to memory
and to nightmare and to experience at a rather more
controlled rate than you would otherwise be able to do, so
it doesn’t just overwhelm you,” Jamison said. “You could
control the experience by writing about it. And it also
keeps depression at bay. … It structures disorder.”
Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson, MD,
MS, also turned to literature in his talk, “Humanism:
Personal and Institutional Reflections.” He referenced
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, in which a man named
Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a
large insect. He compared the character’s plight with that
M. Roy Wilson, MD, Wayne State of patients dealing with terminal illnesses.
University President
“It’s one of the best examples of alienation made symbolic
in literature,” Wilson said. “Like Gregor, who suffered
doubly by the attitude of his supposed loved ones who
made clear they would be better off without him, many
suffer in isolation. As health care professionals, we can do
better in caring for those who need us the most.”
UCLA School of Medicine Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Dan Siegel, MD, examined how mindful awareness –
paying attention to present experiences with openness,
Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, Dalio Family curiosity and a willingness to be with what is — can
Professor in Mood Disorders, Professor of improve connections between the mind, the body and
Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, and co-director of the relationships.
Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center
“My entire field can be boiled down to ‘integrated
relationships lead to optimal regulation,’” Siegel said.
“When relationships for a child are integrative and adverse
experiences are low, that integrated relational field — those
experiences, energy and information flow that’s integrated
— stimulates the growth of integration in the head brain
and its connections with the heart brain.
“When we think about humanism in medicine, it means
bringing the mind into medicine so that you could see how
Dan Siegel, MD, UCLA School of Medicine relationships between the clinician and the patient can be
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry optimally integrated,” Siegel said. “When we talk about
healing the mind, I think what we’re doing is having the
mind go from states of chaos or rigidity and toward
harmony, because healing is making whole and making
whole comes from integration.” VIEW
https://news.westernu.edu/westernus-presidential-symposium-examines-humanism-in-medicine/
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and to nightmare and to experience at a rather more
controlled rate than you would otherwise be able to do, so
it doesn’t just overwhelm you,” Jamison said. “You could
control the experience by writing about it. And it also
keeps depression at bay. … It structures disorder.”
Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson, MD,
MS, also turned to literature in his talk, “Humanism:
Personal and Institutional Reflections.” He referenced
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, in which a man named
Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a
large insect. He compared the character’s plight with that
M. Roy Wilson, MD, Wayne State of patients dealing with terminal illnesses.
University President
“It’s one of the best examples of alienation made symbolic
in literature,” Wilson said. “Like Gregor, who suffered
doubly by the attitude of his supposed loved ones who
made clear they would be better off without him, many
suffer in isolation. As health care professionals, we can do
better in caring for those who need us the most.”
UCLA School of Medicine Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Dan Siegel, MD, examined how mindful awareness –
paying attention to present experiences with openness,
Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, Dalio Family curiosity and a willingness to be with what is — can
Professor in Mood Disorders, Professor of improve connections between the mind, the body and
Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, and co-director of the relationships.
Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center
“My entire field can be boiled down to ‘integrated
relationships lead to optimal regulation,’” Siegel said.
“When relationships for a child are integrative and adverse
experiences are low, that integrated relational field — those
experiences, energy and information flow that’s integrated
— stimulates the growth of integration in the head brain
and its connections with the heart brain.
“When we think about humanism in medicine, it means
bringing the mind into medicine so that you could see how
Dan Siegel, MD, UCLA School of Medicine relationships between the clinician and the patient can be
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry optimally integrated,” Siegel said. “When we talk about
healing the mind, I think what we’re doing is having the
mind go from states of chaos or rigidity and toward
harmony, because healing is making whole and making
whole comes from integration.” VIEW
https://news.westernu.edu/westernus-presidential-symposium-examines-humanism-in-medicine/
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