1st Edition
The Self in Health and Illness Patients, Professionals and Narrative Identity
150 Pages
by
CRC Press
152 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This book contains a foreword by Elliot G Mishler - professor of Social Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Patients' views of their identity change with illness, as do health professionals' views of them. This book discusses how and why this happens, and examines how more awareness of this phenomenon can lead to better care. Providing examples from diverse clinical... Read more
The nature of self and how it is experienced within and beyond the health care setting. The power of the projected self: a case study in self artistry. Constructions of self: ethical overtones in surprising locations. Somebody wants to be normal: an account of an HIV narrative. When narratives matter: men, sport, and spinal chord injury. Body and self: a phenomenological study on the ageing body and identity. Self and narrative in schizophrenia: time to author a new story. Motherhood versus patienthood: a conflict of identities. Becoming a nurse: 'It's just who I am'. They stole my baby's soul: narratives of embodiment and loss.
Biography
Frances Rapport, Paul Wainwright
