{"product_id":"how-people-change","title":"How People Change - The Short Story as Case History","description":"\u003cb\u003eA manual to show practicing physicians and medical students how to make use of short  stories to help their patients adapt to their illnesses and participate in their  treatment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For most people, the quickest route to wisdom, other than experience,  is through stories. Stories speak across generational lines and cultures, emphasize  the universality of human experience, and offer insight into the dynamics involved  in unfamiliar situations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Freud and D.W. Winnicott were among the few psychiatrists  able to write case histories emblematic of the vicissitudes of the human condition.  As a rule, the technical and dry approach of the psychiatric literature is not fit  to teach doctors how to connect to their patients' suffering because it privileges  pathological categories over experience. Tucker, therefore, turns to the drama and  conflicts of fictional characters, to restore the human dimension of medicine and  to entice practitioners to grasp the emotional and intellectual layers of the particular  situations in which their patients are entrapped. The sixteen stories selected here  are analyzed to show how they illustrate the process of change, as defined by Erik  Erikson’s description of the \"life cycle.\" Some of these stories include \"Gooseberries\"  by Anton Chekhov, \"The Dead\" by James Joyce, and \"Her First Ball\" by Katherine Mansfield.  Physicians and medical students can turn to these narratives as examples of how others  have dealt with challenges and debilitating conditions, and encourage their patients  to follow similar paths to bring about change in their lives.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51166728257824,"sku":"9781590512128","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781590512128.jpg?v=1769720451","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/how-people-change","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}