A psychiatrist-playwright shows how adapting classic drama for medical students cultivates empathy and reflective care practice.

Language, ritual, and narrative serve as powerful healing tools, with context, beliefs, and social support enhancing health outcomes.

The 1918 flu pandemic’s history and literature together reveal its vast global impact and intimate human suffering, offering fuller insight than either alone.

The “fragmentary novel” Flights, offers literary descriptions of phantom limb pain by imagining what a known amputee from the past may have gone through.