• Een bloederig meesterwerk

    Recent kwam ik onderstaand schilderij tegen op internet. Ik vond het een bloederig schilderij maar het raakte mij ook. Ik ging op zoek naar de maker en de achtergrond van…

  • European Society of Narrative Medicine

    Today marks a special day this year! Irene Gottgens and I officially co-founded the European Society of Narrative Medicine at the notary today. This initiative was born out of feeling of hope, a dream…

  • Practicing Narrative Medicine

    One of principle tenets of narrative medicine is listening with the patient’s story, not to the patient’s story. Listening medically  (To) is about identifying the signs, symptoms and information to make the…

  • Who’s the hero of this narrative?

    In an increasingly tech-driven and impersonal world, Sudha Umashanker discovers Dr. Rita Charon, whose Narrative Medicine programme trains doctors to spend time listening and empathising with their patients as they…

  • Narrative Medicine

    The Certified Listening ProfessionalTM (CLPTM) is offered by the International Listening Association (ILA) as one method of fulfilling its mission to advance the practice, teaching, and research of listening throughout…