Narrative ways of hearing and knowing with Sanja Maretic

This podcast episode discusses narrative-based approaches and the role and function of narratives in the care of people and other topics such as:

• structural competency as a framework to appreciate the complex social contexts and structures which guide people’s health, illness and recovery
• how hearing our patients’ narratives enables us to know and see them, the social structures surrounding their lives and environment
• how narrative analysis can be used to think critically about our practice and the narratives which surround our clinical realities
• how incorporating the arts, poetry and humanities into healthcare education will help widen the therapeutic gaze of clinicians beyond the mere biomedical
• the experience of journeying and finding a way into a multidisciplinary pain setting
• the notion of ‘listening hands’ in relation to touch and how this may or may not facilitate the construction and understanding of a person’s narrative and life-world