• Corpus ID: 68078559

Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out

@inproceedings{McEntyre2013PatientPI,
  title={Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out},
  author={Marilyn Chandler McEntyre},
  year={2013}
}

• M. McEntyre
• Published 11 January 2013
• Psychology

Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt vehicle for articulating the often isolating experiences of pain, fatigue, changed life rhythms, altered self-understanding, embarrassment, resistance, and acceptance.