Narrative-based Primary Care

Abstract

We live narratively, making sense of what happens to us through the stories we tell. It is because we are storytellers by nature that narrative ideas such as those described by Launer are interesting. His approach to narrative in practice and in education for practice owes much to family therapy. He believes that narrative provides a framework for thinking about all aspects of primary care and emphasises the role of practitioners in helping patients to develop new and more helpful stories about the human problems with which they live. Though focused on primary care, this book should be read by practitioners and educators in a whole range of areas in health and social care, who hunger for new ways of coming to understand and help patients, as well as by those who already appreciate the importance of story.