therapeutic writing

Can ‘life writing’ be therapeutic in response to trauma? An exploratory research project in Medical Humanities in South Africa
Dawn Garisch, Janet Giddy, Giles Griffin, Steve Reid

Medical Humanities Mar 2024, 50 (1) 162-169; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012368
Written on milk: exploring messages written on donated human-milk bags
Ayelet Oreg

Medical Humanities Dec 2023, 49 (4) 688-699; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012608
Understanding how college students characterise and cope with chronic pain: a thematic analysis of expressive writing samples
Kaitlyn Root, Sarah Nosek

Medical Humanities Sep 2023, 49 (3) 370-377; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012466
Modern tragedies in self-help literature, blogs and online universes: conceptions of resilience as a literary phenomenon
Louise Folker Christensen, Peter Simonsen, Anna Paldam Folker

Medical Humanities Dec 2020, 46 (4) 474-482; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011712
An unpredictable vision
Andrew R L Medford

Medical Humanities Dec 2017, 43 (4) e40; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011269
Anxieties of communication: the limits of narrative in the medical humanities
Claire Charlotte McKechnie

Medical Humanities Dec 2014, 40 (2) 119-124; DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2013-010466

CLINICAL
- Anaesthesia
- Anaesthesia
  - Other anaesthesia
  - Pain (anaesthesia)
- Cardiovascular medicine
- Cardiovascular medicine
  - Arrhythmias
    - Bradyarrhythmias and heart block
    - Tachyarrhythmias
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  - Drugs: cardiovascular system
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    - Gastrointestinal hormones
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- Infectious diseases
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- Neurology (1)
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  - Brain stem / cerebellum
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  - Parkinson's disease
  - Peripheral nerve disease
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  - Spinal cord
  - Stroke
  - Trauma CNS / PNS
  - Variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease
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  - Vitreous
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- Paediatrics
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  - Adolescent health
  - Bilirubin disorders
  - Child abuse
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  - Congenital disorders
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  - End of life decisions (palliative care)
  - Hospice
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- Pharmacology and therapeutics
- Prison medicine
- Psychiatry
  - Adjustment disorders
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    - Alcohol dependence
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    - Alcohol withdrawal delirium
    - Alcohol-induced amnestic disorder (Korsak's syndrome)
  - Alcohol-related disorders
  - Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD)
    - Agoraphobia
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    - Other phobias
    - Panic disorder
    - Post-traumatic stress disorder
    - Social phobia
  - Anxiety disorders (including OCD and PTSD)
  - Child and adolescent psychiatry
    - Asperger syndrome
    - Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
    - Autism
    - Conduct disorder
  - Child and adolescent psychiatry
  - Delirium
  - Drugs misuse (including addiction)
  - Drugs misuse (including addiction)
    - Substance dependence
    - Substance intoxication delirium
    - Substance withdrawal
    - Substance-induced psychotic disorder
  - Drugs: psychiatry
  - Eating disorders
  - Eating disorders
    - Anorexia nervosa
    - Bulimia nervosa
  - Impulse control disorders
    - Pathological gambling
    - Trichotillomania
  - Impulse control disorders
  - Memory disorders
    - Dementia due to medical condition
    - Dementia, Alzheimer's type
    - Dementia, Pick's disease
    - Dementia, vascular
  - Memory disorders (psychiatry)
  - Mood disorders (including depression)
    - Bipolar disorder
    - Depressive disorder
  - Mood disorders (including depression)
  - Personality disorders
  - Personality disorders
    - Antisocial personality disorder
    - Avoidant personality disorder
    - Borderline personality disorder
    - Dependent personality disorder
    - Histrionic personality disorder
    - Schizoid personality disorder
    - Schizotypal personality disorder
  - Psychiatry of old age
  - Psychotherapy
    - Cagnitive behavioural psychotherapy
    - Dynamic psychotherapy
    - Other psychotherapies
  - Psychotherapy
  - Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia)
    - Delusional disorder
    - Schizophrenia spectrum
  - Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia)
  - Sexual and gender disorders
  - Sexual and gender disorders
    - Gender identity disorder
    - Paedophilia
    - Paraphilia
  - Sleep disorders
    - Primary hypersomnia
    - Primary insomnia
  - Sleep disorders
  - Somatoform disorders
  - Somatoform disorders
    - Conversion disorder
    - Dissociative disorder
    - Factitious disorder
    - Hypochondriasis
  - Suicide (psychiatry)
- Psychiatry (1)
- Radiology
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Rehabilitation medicine
  - Disability
  - Other rehabilitative therapies
  - Physiotherapy
- Renal medicine
- Renal medicine
  - Acute renal failure
  - Chronic renal failure
  - Dialysis
  - Fluid electrolyte and acid-base disturbances
  - Nephrotic syndrome
  - Proteinurea
  - Renal transplantation
- Respiratory medicine
  - Adult respiratory distress syndrome
  - Airway biology
  - Asthma
  - Bronchiolitis
  - Bronchitis
  - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
  - Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of lung
  - Cystic fibrosis
  - Drugs: respiratory system
  - Fungal lung diseases
  - Hemoptysis
  - Interstitial lung disease
  - Lung abscess
  - Lung cancer (respiratory medicine)
  - Lung function
  - Lung haemorrhage
  - Lung infection
  - Lung neoplasms
  - Mechanical ventilation
  - Meconium aspiration
  - Parasitic lung disease
  - Pneumonia (respiratory medicine)
  - Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
  - Pulmonary embolism
  - Pulmonary emphysema
  - Pulmonary endometriosis
  - Pulmonary eosinophilia
  - Pulmonary hypertension
  - Pulmonary oedema
  - Pulmonary plasma cell granuloma
  - Pulmonary veno-occulsive disease
  - Sleep disorders (respiratory medicine)
  - Tobacco related disease
  - Tuberculosis
- Respiratory medicine
- Rheumatology
- Rheumatology
  - Ankylosing spondylitis
  - Biological agents
  - Connective tissue disease
  - Degenerative joint disease
  - Drugs: musculoskeletal and joint diseases
  - Fibromyalgia
  - Musculoskeletal syndromes
  - Osteoarthritis
  - Osteoporosis
  - Rheumatoid arthritis
  - Sjogren's syndrome
  - Systemic lupus erythematosus
  - Vascularitis
- Sexual health
- Sexual health
  - Candidiasis
  - Condoms
  - Genital ulcers
  - Hepatitis (sexual health)
  - HIV / AIDS
  - Pelvic inflammatory disease
  - Prostatitis
  - Sex workers
  - Sexual and gender disorders
  - Sexual dysfunction
  - Sexual transmitted infections (bacterial)
  - Sexual transmitted infections (bacterial)
    - Chlamydia
    - Gonorrhoea
    - Other
    - Syphilis
  - Sexual transmitted infections (viral)
  - Sexual transmitted infections (viral)
  - Urethritis
  - Vulvovaginal disorders
- Sports and exercise medicine
  - Conditions
  - Orthopaedic manipulation
  - Physical injuries
  - Physiotherapy
  - Procedures
  - Sports
    - Basketball
    - Boxing
    - Cycling
    - Football (soccer)
    - Golf
    - Gymnastics
    - Ice hockey
    - Kayaking
    - Martial arts
    - Rugby
    - Running
    - Snow sports
    - Squash
    - Triathalons
    - Volleyball
    - Weight training
- Sports and exercise medicine
- Surgery
  - Breast surgery
  - Cardiothoracic surgery
  - Gastrointestinal surgery
  - General surgery
  - Neurosurgery
  - Oral and maxillofacial surgery
  - Orthopaedic and trauma surgery
  - Otolaryngology / ENT
  - Plastic and reconstructive surgery
  - Surgical oncology
  - Transplantation
  - Urological surgery
  - Vascular surgery
- Surgery
- Urology
- Urology
  - Circumcision
  - Hematuria
  - Prostate
  - Urinary tract infections
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- Communication
- Epidemiology
  - Clinical trials (epidemiology)
  - Epidemiologic studies
  - Epidemiologic studies
  - Population trends
  - Screening (epidemiology)
  - Survey techniques
  - Therapeutic trials
  - Time-to-event methods
- Epidemiology
- Ethics
- Ethics
  - Artificial and donated transplantation
  - Assisted dying
  - Bioethics
  - Clinical ethics
  - Codes of professional ethics
  - Competing interests (ethics)
  - Confidentiality
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  - End of life decisions (ethics)
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  - Ethics of reproduction
  - Experiments in vivo
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  - Research and publication ethics
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- Health economics
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  - Professional conduct and regulation
- Medical education
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  - Postgraduate
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- Medical education (1)
- Medical humanities
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  - Education, medical
  - History of medicine
  - Medical anthropology
  - Music and medicine
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  - Politics and medicine
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  - Sex and sexuality
  - Theory of medical knowledge
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- Medical management
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  - Medical error/ patient safety
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- Occupational and environmental medicine
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- Occupational and environmental medicine
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  - Homicide
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  - Injury diagnoses
    - Burns (diagnoses)
    - Fractures
    - Head injury
    - Spinal cord injury
  - Injury location
    - Workplace injury
  - Injury mechanisms
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therapeutic writing