Broken Narratives: Clinical Encounters and the Poetics of Illness Experience Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University In: C. Mattingly & L. Garro (eds.) Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing (pp. 153-180), Berkeley: University of California Press. Address correspondence to: Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry 4333 Côte Ste-Catherine Road Montréal, Québec H3T 1E4 514-340-7549 FAX 340-7507 email: Laurence.kirmaye@mcgill.ca