Catching Stories: Building a House for Narrative and Communication in Digital Healthcare

Susana Teixeira Magalhães

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Pages:: 91–100

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004386563_010

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The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult, a story built of stories by different voices, focuses our attention on the work of memory and narrative, reminding us of the thought provoking book by Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, and allowing us to bring in Paul Ricoeur’s theory of the identity in Soi-Même comme un Autre, as well as The Wounded Storyteller by Arthur W. Frank. The intersubjective dimension of therapeutic relationships and the relevance of narrative knowledge in health care recognized by Narrative Medicine demand from the health professionals the development of the skills of a storyteller and those of a story listener/reader. The self that understands itself through the stories about itself, needs to commit to some life story. So, the question is: “of what story or stories do I find myself part of?” (Macintyre). The challenge we are facing these days is how to enact this narrative approach in the digital era. Is it possible to build a new therapeutic alliance in the digital era? We believe it is, so we have designed the platform Catching stories as a pathway for narrative and communication in health care. The Art of Memory is spatial and narrative medicine fosters this spatiality by making the caregiver, the patient, the family aware of their own place, where they can find space for the Other by emptying themselves. It is the place from where they can depart to demand for a meaningful story within and ahead of the boundaries of illness. Our platform is designed as a house with doors and windows that can be opened (according to ethical and legal norms) by patients, relatives, doctors and other caregivers in order to foster communication and to provide narrative input that can be developed when face-to-face encounter takes place.

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The Patient-Doctor Dynamics

Examining Current Trends in the Global Healthcare Sector

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 114

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004386563

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 Nov 2018

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