Conversations with Buer.

The communicative practice of pathography, or illness narratives, is emerging within the field of medical humanities. Pathography is a modality through which one may express their embodied experience of illness and their relations with the health care system. Offering voice and agency to the patient, pathography also holds potential as an empathy training tool for medical staff. Research is illuminating the ways in which illness narratives can act as a bridge between the lived experiences of the ill and the institutional treatment practices of the health care system. "Conversations With Buer" is an example of a personal illness narrative depicting the interaction between mental illness, gendered subjectivity, and health care services. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).