Art and published articles by Mary Shannon, artist, writer and psychotherapist : Mary T. Shannon

Art / Writing

An award-winning artist, Mary’s work was selected for the Oncology on Canvas Exhibition, which toured nationally through 2011-2012. Click below for a listing of Mary’s publications, art shows and private collectors.

Publications

LA Times: One year COVID anniversary: Healthcare workers share their art. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-03-12

Memoir Boot Camp: Writing to Heal. In Elephant Journal, an online publication, 4/22/2015.

The Upside of Madness. In Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2016), 25, 744-748. Cambridge University Press.

Parallel Universe. In JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association, August 17, 2011 print issue. Indexed in PubMed.

Cold Comfort. In Pulse, Voices from the Heart of Medicine, featured online June 5, 2012.

The Face of Pain. In The Journal of Academic Medicine, July, 2013 issue.

For Girls Like Me. A book chapter in Encounters with Self Harm, by PCCS Books Ltd., the United Kingdom, published in summer, 2013.

Reconstructing a Self: Early Trauma and the Healing Power of Narrative. In Hektoen International, a Journal of Medical Humanities. Featured article. Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring, 2012.

Dirty Laundry. In Hektoen International, A Journal of Medical Humanities, September, 2011. www.hektoeninternational.org

The Other Side of Silence. Poetry. In Leaflet, a medical, literary and arts e-journal www.kp.org/permanentejournal/leaflet

A Bare Tree in Winter. Original artwork in The Permanente Journal. Currently online, Volume 15, Number 4. In print issue January, 2012.

Crossing Boundaries: Visual Representations of Death and Dying. In Hektoen International, A Journal of Medical Humanities, Vol. 3, Issue 2, May, 2011. www.hektoeninternational.org.

Face Off: Searching for Truth and Beauty in the Clinical Encounter, Based on the Memoir, Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy. In the Journal of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Published online, September 6, 2011. Indexed in PubMed

The Invisible Man. In The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, online 5/15/2011, www.yjhm.yale.edu.

Giving Pain a Voice: Narrative Medicine and the Doctor-Patient Relationship. In the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 26, Journal # 11606, print and online, 4/16/2011. Indexed in PubMed

Please Hear What I’m Not Saying: The Art of Listening in the Clinical Encounter. The Permanente Journal, Narrative Medicine Column, Spring issue, 2011, Vol. 15, No. 2. http://www.thepermanentejournal.org/issues/2011/spring.html Indexed in PubMed

Letting Go. In Lahey Clinic Journal of Medical Ethics, Fall 2012, Vol. 19, Issue 3, p. 5.

Coming Home. In Leaflet, a medical, literary, arts e-journal, published by The Permanente Press, Volume 2; Issue 1, http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/leaflet/index.html

Walking Home. In The Sun Magazine, March 2010, Issue 411, pp 33.

My Mother, My Self: Paranoid Schizophrenia and the Literary Mirror of Madness. The University of Nottingham, Madness and Literature Network, 2010. www.madnessandliterature.org

Health Promotion and Illness Prevention: A Biopsychosocial Perspective. In Health and Social Work, A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers Vol. 14, Number 1, February 1989, pp. 32-40.

The First 50 Years, 1959 – 2009, The Portland Art Museum, Historical researcher and writer for this collaborative book, published in 2009 and available through the Portland Art Museum.

Giving Pain a Voice. In The Permanente Journal, Volume 8, No.1, Winter 2004, pp. 72-73.

Adult Children of Schizophrenics. In Schizophrenia Bulletin, a publication of the Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Maryland. Vol. 14, No. 4, 1988, pp. 495-6.

Injustice Comes in Many Guises. San Francisco Chronicle, December 12, 1997; Editorial on diversity and discrimination.

Medical Staff News Magazine. July/August, 2001, Vol. 32, No. 2: Writer, Editor, Graphic Design Consultant for regional Physician’s magazine.