13 - Dr. Suze Berkhout: Stay With the Mess

Suze Berkhout, MD, Ph.D., joins us to discuss storytelling and why it matters, how to ethically share stories in an accessible and meaningful format, writing and other creative processes, learning to stay with the mess, and so much more!

Dr. Suze Berkhout is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a clinician-investigator and practicing psychiatrist within the University Health Network. Her research explores how dimensions of self and social identity are shaped within medical and psychiatric practices, and the implications of this for the production and unintended consequences of biomedical knowledge. Her current overlapping and messy research projects explore these themes within Placebo and Nocebo Studies, First Episode Psychosis, and Transplant Medicine, and increasingly include methods that push at the limits of narrative convention.

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This episode of Accidental Intellectual is produced by Bronwyn Lamond, Rachael Lyon, Harrison McNaughtan, Stephanie Morris, Lee Propp, and Ariana Simone. Our theme music is by Alexandra Willet and our branding by Maxwell McNaughtan.

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