Bradley Lewis MD, PhD
Associate Professor
New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study

With response by Jason Rosenstock, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Abstract: Narrative medicine and narrative psychiatry begin with a basic claim that narrative skills facilitate clinical practice: “good readers make good clinicians.” This talk takes this claim seriously by considering how reading about Ophelia (in a play called Hamlet) can be helpful for mental health work today. We open from there to the larger interdisciplinary questions of “mad studies,” “sanism,” and “mad-positive” models of mental difference.

Health Humanities Lecture Series of the Center for Bioethics & Health Law — This lecture is offered in conjunction with Ailing Bodies, taught by Kaliane Ung, and in celebration of the new undergraduate Certificate in Health Humanities.

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