Allan Peterkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6728268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Peterkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterkin |
| SIGNATURE | PETERKIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Sinai Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond
The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a junior doctor's life – from clinical transitions, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care and protecting personal and professional relationships. Already acknowledged in its original Canadian edition as an invaluable resource by thousand…
Curating the medical humanities curriculum
As the head of a university-wide health humanities programme and a consultant ‘Humanities Lead’ to our medical school, I am often asked how to build arts and humanities-based sessions within the formal medical curriculum, given that teaching schedules are already oversubscribed. In many medical schools, such sessions remain optional or elective and as a result, may be perceived as less important than ‘obligatory content’ by students and faculty. …
Looking forward
A pilot study of a narrative competence group to enhance coping and quality of life in patients with HIV
Background: Writing about traumatic or emotional events can result in improvements in physical and psychological health. The objective of the current pilot study is to evaluate the impact of an expressive writing group on the psychological functioning of individuals living with HIV. Methods: Thirty-one participants with HIV completed measures of psychological distress prior to and following the Narrative Competence Psychotherapy (NCP) interventio…
Primum Non Nocere
Primum Non Nocere: On Accountability in Narrative-Based Medicine Allan Peterkin (bio) Narrative-based medicine, a term coined in the United Kingdom, has offered creative approaches to understanding and improving the doctor-patient relationship.1 These include eliciting, reading, and discussing patient narratives and turning to literature for fully embodied stories of illness and recovery. In North America, John Engel and colleagues have identifie…
Dissecting Dad
The boy as Glenn Gould
fat are turning grey and the melancholic feeling of the 1950s is glaringly obvious in his work. Beuys' art was tied to his life, his presence and the times in which he lived. Today it is important to use the remaining artefacts to keep alive the memories of Lebenslauf/Werklauf as a record of extraordinary strength, arising from trauma and severe injury, and carried by a passionate commitment to mankind and to life itself
Finding a voice
We review the history of therapeutic writing, focusing on the role of narrative competence and the use of writing therapy for stress, trauma and coping with chronic illness. After providing a historical overview of the evidence for writing's positive effects on health and the hypothesised mechanisms underlying this effect, we ask whether narrative competence can explain and improve writing's benefit. Narrative competence is defined across two dim…
Finding a voice
We review the history of therapeutic writing, focusing on the role of narrative competence and the use of writing therapy for stress, trauma and coping with chronic illness. After providing a historical overview of the evidence for writing's positive effects on health and the hypothesised mechanisms underlying this effect, we ask whether narrative competence can explain and improve writing's benefit. Narrative competence is defined across two dim…
A pilot study of a narrative competence group to enhance coping and quality of life in patients with HIV
Background: Writing about traumatic or emotional events can result in improvements in physical and psychological health. The objective of the current pilot study is to evaluate the impact of an expressive writing group on the psychological functioning of individuals living with HIV. Methods: Thirty-one participants with HIV completed measures of psychological distress prior to and following the Narrative Competence Psychotherapy (NCP) interventio…
Finding a voice
We review the history of therapeutic writing, focusing on the role of narrative competence and the use of writing therapy for stress, trauma and coping with chronic illness. After providing a historical overview of the evidence for writing's positive effects on health and the hypothesised mechanisms underlying this effect, we ask whether narrative competence can explain and improve writing's benefit. Narrative competence is defined across two dim…
The boy as Glenn Gould
fat are turning grey and the melancholic feeling of the 1950s is glaringly obvious in his work. Beuys' art was tied to his life, his presence and the times in which he lived. Today it is important to use the remaining artefacts to keep alive the memories of Lebenslauf/Werklauf as a record of extraordinary strength, arising from trauma and severe injury, and carried by a passionate commitment to mankind and to life itself
Primum Non Nocere
Primum Non Nocere: On Accountability in Narrative-Based Medicine Allan Peterkin (bio) Narrative-based medicine, a term coined in the United Kingdom, has offered creative approaches to understanding and improving the doctor-patient relationship.1 These include eliciting, reading, and discussing patient narratives and turning to literature for fully embodied stories of illness and recovery. In North America, John Engel and colleagues have identifie…
Dissecting Dad
Looking forward
A pilot study of a narrative competence group to enhance coping and quality of life in patients with HIV
Background: Writing about traumatic or emotional events can result in improvements in physical and psychological health. The objective of the current pilot study is to evaluate the impact of an expressive writing group on the psychological functioning of individuals living with HIV. Methods: Thirty-one participants with HIV completed measures of psychological distress prior to and following the Narrative Competence Psychotherapy (NCP) interventio…
Curating the medical humanities curriculum
As the head of a university-wide health humanities programme and a consultant ‘Humanities Lead’ to our medical school, I am often asked how to build arts and humanities-based sessions within the formal medical curriculum, given that teaching schedules are already oversubscribed. In many medical schools, such sessions remain optional or elective and as a result, may be perceived as less important than ‘obligatory content’ by students and faculty. …
Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond
The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a junior doctor's life – from clinical transitions, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care and protecting personal and professional relationships. Already acknowledged in its original Canadian edition as an invaluable resource by thousand…
Psychology (6 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Competence (human resources (2 works) · Coping (psychology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (2 works)