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Can poetry help us become better psychiatrists?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jeremy Holmes
Jeremy Holmes*
Affiliation:
North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 4JB
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Abstract

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Learning medicine and psychiatry is a moral as well as an intellectual challenge. Successful training in psychiatry can lead to significant personality maturation. Using poetic examples, the paper explores aspects of emotional development relevant to the traditional values of dynamic psychiatry. Such values are contrasted with those of the prevailing bureaucracy.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 12 , December 1996 , pp. 722 - 725
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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