Gillie Bolton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillie Bolton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillie |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolton |
| SIGNATURE | BOLTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Boundaries of Humanities
Literature and medicine is a discipline within medical humanities, which challenges medicine to reconfigure its scientific model to become interdisciplinary, and be disciplined by arts and humanities as well as science. The psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical are inextricably linked in people, inevitably entailing provisionality, disturbance and lack of certainty, and lack of closure and therefore of control. Arts and humanities appr…
Writing is a way of saying things I can’t say”—therapeutic creative writing
This paper reports on a therapeutic creative writing project undertaken at King's College London and University College Hospital London, funded by Arts Council England. The project sought to increase understanding of experiences of personal expressive and explorative writing by cancer patients receiving palliative care. Narrative methods were used to analyse and interpret patients' written and oral (transcripts of semistructured interviews) respo…
Opening the word hoard
Opening the Word Hoard
Opening the word hoard is edited by Gillie Bolton. Items should be sent to her address at the end of her introduction. > The function of the writer is to act in such a way that nobody can be ignorant of the world, and that nobody may say that he is innocent of what it’s all about. JP Sartre (p14)1 > Cut doors and windows for a room > > It is the holes which make them useful. > > Therefore profit comes from what is there; > > Usefulness from what …
Narrative writing
An effective mode of reflective practice and reflexivity is through personal professional narrative and story exploration. All professional and personal experience is naturally storied; telling or writing stories are prime human ways of understanding, communicating and remembering. Narratives of vital or key areas of professional experience can be communicated and explored directly and simply through expressive writing. These might be expressed f…
Opening the word hoard
Who’s speaking
When you read, who is speaking to you? A novel or poem is always told by a specific voice—the voice of the narrator: that narrator is a fictional character, whether they reveal themselves or not. Whose is the narrator’s voice in any particular text? When you write, who tells the story, creates the description, or reports events? You know who is holding the pen or tapping the keys, but whose voice is expressed within the writing? Where does writin…
Reliability
Literature to heal the divide
Poetry and fiction clarify and illuminate the continuity of mind, body, and spirit, sometimes dissociated in medicine.They offer a rounded view of humanity, entering into hope, terror, passion, ideas, knowledge, skills, beliefs, situations, and events.TS Eliot commented that "in the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered". 1 Fiction and poetry can help heal the Cartesian divide
Two stories and an ode
Literature can enable insight and understanding in both writer and reader. A reader has issues explained in memorable ways. I know that icebergs make a terrible racket grinding against each other because Coleridge has told me so: “The ice was here, the ice was there, / The ice was all around; / It cracked, and growled, and roared and howled, / Like noises in a swound'1 (despite never knowing what a swound is). And I empathise with Roquentin and h…
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Following an initiative taken by the NuYeld Trust, an ad hoc steering committee consisting of the authors of this paper was convened under the auspices of the Trust in order
Opening the word hoard 1
Second National Medical Humanities Conference
Five poems by Helen Drucquer and a story by Frederick Nenner
Edited by Gillie Bolton University of Sheffield, Sheffield All the time touch, chaotic touch, unspoken and untutored sense. Touch happening every day in every room fingers in arseholes probing feeling for the lump in the gut nervous student about to put his hand on or in that soft hidden mound kindly male hand on the back of the child's head touch that he will treasure all his life and reenact one day in remembrance of that gift. gift of trust th…
Every Poem Breaks a Silence that Had to be Overcome
The creation of poetry can be an intensely healing process, as therapeutic as the other arts and talking therapies. This paper examines three areas. First, it sets out some opinions about the specific qualities of poetry that make it particularly valuable as part of a therapeutic process. It goes on to give exemplified information about how poetry is used within healthcare in Britain. Finally, it indicates the current growth of interest in this a…
Stories at Work. Fictional‐Critical Writing as a Means of Professional Development
‘Stories at Work’, or fictional‐critical writing, is an emerging discipline; it has been piloted as a means of professional enquiry. This article offers a brief description of the Stories at Work process, an account of a specific course, and a report on the ways in which it has been used as a mode of enquiry. This is followed up with a whistle‐stop tour of a range of academic discourses in order to explore and articulate a theoretical context in …
Narrative writing
An effective mode of reflective practice and reflexivity is through personal professional narrative and story exploration. All professional and personal experience is naturally storied; telling or writing stories are prime human ways of understanding, communicating and remembering. Narratives of vital or key areas of professional experience can be communicated and explored directly and simply through expressive writing. These might be expressed f…
Writing is a way of saying things I can’t say”—therapeutic creative writing
This paper reports on a therapeutic creative writing project undertaken at King's College London and University College Hospital London, funded by Arts Council England. The project sought to increase understanding of experiences of personal expressive and explorative writing by cancer patients receiving palliative care. Narrative methods were used to analyse and interpret patients' written and oral (transcripts of semistructured interviews) respo…
Every Poem Breaks a Silence that Had to be Overcome
The creation of poetry can be an intensely healing process, as therapeutic as the other arts and talking therapies. This paper examines three areas. First, it sets out some opinions about the specific qualities of poetry that make it particularly valuable as part of a therapeutic process. It goes on to give exemplified information about how poetry is used within healthcare in Britain. Finally, it indicates the current growth of interest in this a…
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Following an initiative taken by the NuYeld Trust, an ad hoc steering committee consisting of the authors of this paper was convened under the auspices of the Trust in order
Stories at Work. Fictional‐Critical Writing as a Means of Professional Development
‘Stories at Work’, or fictional‐critical writing, is an emerging discipline; it has been piloted as a means of professional enquiry. This article offers a brief description of the Stories at Work process, an account of a specific course, and a report on the ways in which it has been used as a mode of enquiry. This is followed up with a whistle‐stop tour of a range of academic discourses in order to explore and articulate a theoretical context in …
Stories at Work. Fictional‐Critical Writing as a Means of Professional Development
‘Stories at Work’, or fictional‐critical writing, is an emerging discipline; it has been piloted as a means of professional enquiry. This article offers a brief description of the Stories at Work process, an account of a specific course, and a report on the ways in which it has been used as a mode of enquiry. This is followed up with a whistle‐stop tour of a range of academic discourses in order to explore and articulate a theoretical context in …
Every Poem Breaks a Silence that Had to be Overcome
The creation of poetry can be an intensely healing process, as therapeutic as the other arts and talking therapies. This paper examines three areas. First, it sets out some opinions about the specific qualities of poetry that make it particularly valuable as part of a therapeutic process. It goes on to give exemplified information about how poetry is used within healthcare in Britain. Finally, it indicates the current growth of interest in this a…
Opening the word hoard 1
Second National Medical Humanities Conference
Five poems by Helen Drucquer and a story by Frederick Nenner
Edited by Gillie Bolton University of Sheffield, Sheffield All the time touch, chaotic touch, unspoken and untutored sense. Touch happening every day in every room fingers in arseholes probing feeling for the lump in the gut nervous student about to put his hand on or in that soft hidden mound kindly male hand on the back of the child's head touch that he will treasure all his life and reenact one day in remembrance of that gift. gift of trust th…
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Following an initiative taken by the NuYeld Trust, an ad hoc steering committee consisting of the authors of this paper was convened under the auspices of the Trust in order
Literature to heal the divide
Poetry and fiction clarify and illuminate the continuity of mind, body, and spirit, sometimes dissociated in medicine.They offer a rounded view of humanity, entering into hope, terror, passion, ideas, knowledge, skills, beliefs, situations, and events.TS Eliot commented that "in the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered". 1 Fiction and poetry can help heal the Cartesian divide
Two stories and an ode
Literature can enable insight and understanding in both writer and reader. A reader has issues explained in memorable ways. I know that icebergs make a terrible racket grinding against each other because Coleridge has told me so: “The ice was here, the ice was there, / The ice was all around; / It cracked, and growled, and roared and howled, / Like noises in a swound'1 (despite never knowing what a swound is). And I empathise with Roquentin and h…
Who’s speaking
When you read, who is speaking to you? A novel or poem is always told by a specific voice—the voice of the narrator: that narrator is a fictional character, whether they reveal themselves or not. Whose is the narrator’s voice in any particular text? When you write, who tells the story, creates the description, or reports events? You know who is holding the pen or tapping the keys, but whose voice is expressed within the writing? Where does writin…
Reliability
Opening the word hoard
Narrative writing
An effective mode of reflective practice and reflexivity is through personal professional narrative and story exploration. All professional and personal experience is naturally storied; telling or writing stories are prime human ways of understanding, communicating and remembering. Narratives of vital or key areas of professional experience can be communicated and explored directly and simply through expressive writing. These might be expressed f…
Opening the Word Hoard
Opening the word hoard is edited by Gillie Bolton. Items should be sent to her address at the end of her introduction. > The function of the writer is to act in such a way that nobody can be ignorant of the world, and that nobody may say that he is innocent of what it’s all about. JP Sartre (p14)1 > Cut doors and windows for a room > > It is the holes which make them useful. > > Therefore profit comes from what is there; > > Usefulness from what …
Boundaries of Humanities
Literature and medicine is a discipline within medical humanities, which challenges medicine to reconfigure its scientific model to become interdisciplinary, and be disciplined by arts and humanities as well as science. The psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical are inextricably linked in people, inevitably entailing provisionality, disturbance and lack of certainty, and lack of closure and therefore of control. Arts and humanities appr…
Writing is a way of saying things I can’t say”—therapeutic creative writing
This paper reports on a therapeutic creative writing project undertaken at King's College London and University College Hospital London, funded by Arts Council England. The project sought to increase understanding of experiences of personal expressive and explorative writing by cancer patients receiving palliative care. Narrative methods were used to analyse and interpret patients' written and oral (transcripts of semistructured interviews) respo…
Opening the word hoard
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Humanities (4 works)