1st Edition
Meaning-Full Disease How Personal Experience and Meanings Cause and Maintain Physical Illness
By Brian Broom
Copyright 2007
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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The book is grounded upon the author's extensive professional involvement with physical diseases that are a powerful expression of the patients' emotional themes and life-stories. They are meaning-full diseases. They occur commonly, and are the most compelling argument for an urgent acknowledgment of the role of meanings in the healing process. Following the pattern of his first book, Somatic... Read more
Contents1 The phenomena 2 Colliding mind-sets 3 Somatic metaphors 4 Language-making and disease 5 Meaning-full disease explorers 6 Disease as communication 7 Who 'sees' meaning-full disease? 8 Meaning-full disease and the lebenswelt 9 Meaning-full disease and the 'visible' 10 Shifting awareness and different kinds of body 11 The scheming body 12 Experience as a 'fundamental' 13 Meaning-full disease and spirit BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biography
Brian Broom
