Blog by Dr. Catherine Bell, GP and coeditor of Kaleidoscopic Minds Kaleidoscopic Minds is an anthology of poetry written by neurodivergent women. The poets featured in this collection belong to a generation of late-diagnosed, undiagnosed and misdiagnosed women with lived experience of ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, OCD, and tics. The editors believe that poetry is […]
Tag: Arts
Students Reflect on a Poetry Reading and Craft Seminar within a Narrative Medicine Curriculum
Reflection by Lucas Axiotakis M.D., Kensington Cochran, Jude Okonkwo, W. Conor Rork and Owen Lewis, M.D. Within the medical curriculum at the Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, there is a well-articulated program of Narrative Medicine Training from the first through final semesters (Charon et al, 1995, 2016; Devlin et al, 2015; Cunningham et […]
Reflections on Teaching Poetry to Medical Students
Reflection by Owen Lewis Since 2017, I have taught an elective course to second semester medical students on poetry reading and craft. It is a six-week elective, three hours per week, one of about a dozen arts electives offered to the students including photography, comic strip writing/drawing, studio drawing, playwriting, and others. The choice of […]
No Words: A Virtual Choir of Healthcare Workers Memorializes 500,000 Americans Lost to the Pandemic
Announcement by The Nocturnists The U.S. has reached half a million deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic. To mark this moment, The Nocturnists medical storytelling community has created No Words, a video memorial honoring those lost to the pandemic and the healthcare workers who cared for them. No Words Memorial Video: https://bit.ly/TheNocturnists_NoWords No Words Webpage: https://thenocturnists.com/no-words […]
New Site “ArtandAnatomy.com” Illustrates Complex Beauty of the Body’s Interior
Announcement by Laura Ferguson and Katie Grogan, DMH, MA The Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine (MSPHM) at NYU Grossman School of Medicine recently launched a new website ArtandAnatomy.com, offering a glimpse inside their book Art & Anatomy: Drawings (University of California Medical Humanities Press, 2018) and the innovative anatomy drawing course on which it is […]
A Story of Kindness during the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis
Visual Audiobook by Luca M. Damiani View the audiobook on Issuu in English, French, Italian and Spanish here. With so much worry, hardship and for some deep sorrow everywhere, it can feel useless and even unnecessary to keep making art; but maybe it is even more important than usual, that we do so. This is […]
Is It Medicine, Is it Religion, or Is It Both? An Interview with Comic Book Writer Al Ewing
Interview by A. David Lewis In this discussion with award-winning comic book author Al Ewing, comics theorist and graphic medicine researcher A. David Lewis explores the growing idea that the comics medium may be drawing medicine and religion—bodily health and spiritual affairs—more closely towards each other via its superhero titles. From Ewing’s revolutionary work on […]
Exploring Hyperacusis: Ethno-Graphic Podcast
Visual Podcast by Luca M. Damiani Exploring Hyperacusis : Ethno-Graphic Podcast from Luca Damiani on Vimeo. In Exploring Hyperacusis: Ethno-Graphic Podcast, I look at the interaction with my conditions, focusing on auto-ethnographic data based on my acoustic condition of hyperacusis, as well as my asperger’s neurological condition. This work is shared as a diary, combining […]
Visualizing my Acoustic Condition: Hyper Sensorial, Visual Graphic Poem
Video-Poem by Luca M. Damiani Below is the video-poem Hyper Sensorial. This work is shared combining the poem and creating graphics, further designing my experience. This is sided by a computational filter that conceptually signifies a further disruption of data, outer stimuli, as well as inner voice. In this piece I started to conceptualize more […]
‘Master My Demons’: Art Therapy Montage Paintings by Active-Duty Military Service Members with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress
Article Summary by Melissa S. Walker, Marygrace Berberian and Girija Kaimal As part of a four-week intensive outpatient program for traumatic brain injury and associated psychological health conditions to include post-traumatic stress, military service members (SMs) engage in group and individual art therapy treatment sessions led by credentialed art therapists. In the fourth week, SMs […]