Arts Literature and Nature

摘要

I recall being told “it’s all psychiatry, you can’t escape it”, after reflecting on a novel with a supervisor of a residency rotation, now some years ago. But seeing psychiatry in everything and everywhere seemed to me to violate the pervasive mental health professional dictate to maintain strong work-life boundaries. In contrast, art and literature and nature may allow us to see from different angles and through new lenses, to foster wider perspectives, and to contextualize psychiatry and so maintain healthy boundaries. In this new section, “Arts & Literature and Nature” (ALAN), we invite readers to offer short reviews and reflections on art and literature, for example books and movies, and aspects of nature; reflections that widen and contextualize the psychiatric experience. (Section lead, Peter Braunberger)