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John Launer is a doctor, educator and award-winning writer. With a dual professional background in general practice and family therapy, as well a degree in English literature, John’s interests range across health care, human systems and the humanities. They include narrative medicine, clinical supervision for the health professions and  team development in the health service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John has written and edited twelve books including ‘Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change” (Routledge 2018) and “How Not To Be A Doctor: And Other Essays” (Duckworth 2018). Further details are on the Main Publications page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John is the longest serving medical columnist in the UK, starting with ‘Hospital Doctor’ in 1980 and continuing with ‘Doctor’ and ‘QJM.’ He wrote the ‘On reflection’ series every month in the Postgraduate Medical Journal from 2008 to 2022 and is now a fortnightly columnist for the British Medical Journal. For links to all his columns, scroll down on the Main Publications page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John worked in the National Health Service in the UK continuously for over forty years. His former posts include associate director for multiprofessional faculty development at Health Education England. His current posts include honorary associate clinical professor of\u00a0primary care at\u00a0University College London, honorary lifetime consultant at the\u00a0Tavistock Clinic (now Tavistock Education and Training),\u00a0 faculty member at\u00a0the Foundation for Family Medicine in Palestine and at ISTUD\u00a0Business School in Milan, and founding president of the\u00a0Association\u00a0of Narrative Practice in Healthcare. He was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Trinity College Dublin during 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John is now a visiting professor of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University, from 2024-2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John\u00a0was the originator, with\u00a0Caroline Lindsey,\u00a0of\u00a0Conversations Inviting Change (CIC)<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>This is a narrative-based model for interactional skills, used in encounters with patients,\u00a0clients and families, as well as for individual and group supervision,\u00a0mentoring,\u00a0coaching, team facilitation and conflict resolution.\u00a0John has given presentations and workshops on CIC in every region of the UK and\u00a0in Europe, Israel, Palestine, Japan, the United States, Canada and Australia.\u00a0Visits in 2024 and 2025 included Ireland, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Norway and China, with online events including California, Japan and Singapore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John is a founder member of the\u00a0International Association for Spielrein Studies\u00a0and on its committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact John at johnlauner@aol.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow him on Bluesky @johnlauner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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