title: Generating words: one approach to teaching clinical writing.
abstract: Language is our means of reaching our patients and our means of describing the process of analysis to others. The task of the case history is to show the evolution of consciousness in both analyst and patient. It will be more effective if written in a lively engaging way. The author describes one method of teaching clinical writing, introducing candidates to techniques of fiction writing and poetry. Her class has involved both focused reading and writing exercises; examples are given of both.
authors.affiliation: ajones@idiom.com
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014825:Vocabulary; D014956:Writing