'HIV In Context' Seminar Series
Everyone Has a Story: Writing Your Way Through HIV
We are the stories we tell. A growing body of literature and practice shows that writing and talking about personal stories can help people living with chronic physical and mental illnesses.
Allan Peterkin MD is a psychiatrist and writer who has co-led a therapeutic writing group for men and women living with HIV for the last 12 years. He will review the literature on the healing benefits of reflective writing, describe the "Narrative Competence sychotherapy" clinical model developed at Mount Sinai Hospital at the University of Toronto, and share some of the stories from participants in the group. An onsite writing exercise will illustrate the approach and how constructive feedback can be delivered while respecting the boundaries of the narrator/author who has shared their story. This seminar will incorporate theoretical, practical and experiential components to explore the use of arrative-based therapy and therapeutic writing in everyday treatment and in our ommunity-based work on HIV, violence and mental health.
Peterkin is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where he heads the Program In Narrative and Healthcare Humanities. He is a founding editor of ARS MEDICA : A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities www.ars-medica.ca and has edited a collection of patient narratives called "STILL HERE: A Post-Cocktail AIDS Anthology" (Life Rattle Press).
Allan Peterkin MD is a psychiatrist and writer who has co-led a therapeutic writing group for men and women living with HIV for the last 12 years. He will review the literature on the healing benefits of reflective writing, describe the "Narrative Competence sychotherapy" clinical model developed at Mount Sinai Hospital at the University of Toronto, and share some of the stories from participants in the group. An onsite writing exercise will illustrate the approach and how constructive feedback can be delivered while respecting the boundaries of the narrator/author who has shared their story. This seminar will incorporate theoretical, practical and experiential components to explore the use of arrative-based therapy and therapeutic writing in everyday treatment and in our ommunity-based work on HIV, violence and mental health.
Peterkin is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where he heads the Program In Narrative and Healthcare Humanities. He is a founding editor of ARS MEDICA : A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities www.ars-medica.ca and has edited a collection of patient narratives called "STILL HERE: A Post-Cocktail AIDS Anthology" (Life Rattle Press).
DATE: Thursday 14 April 2011
TIME: 09H00 – 11H30
VENUE: 2A, School of Public Health Building, UWC
RSVP: Lynette Martin, SOPH by 11th April 2011
Tel: 959-2132/2809
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