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Agnostics
Angry Temperament
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Bee Venom Allergy
biomedical
Biomedical Clinicians
biopsychosocial model
body
Body Separateness
Body Structure
Broken Heart Syndrome
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Clinical Practice
clinicians
cold
Cold Urticaria
Container Metaphors
Discontinuous Reflections
diseases
emotional meaning in chronic illness
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Exquisite Tenderness
Facial Rash
Georg Groddeck
House Dust Mite
Human Subjective Experience
illness narratives
Internal Organ Damage
Interstitial Cystitis
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Metaphorical Source Domain
metaphors
Mindbody Approaches
Modernist Disavowal
narrative therapy approaches
patient-centred care
phenomenology of disease
physical
psychosomatic medicine
Puffy Eyes
separateness
Severe Eczema
somatic
Somatic Metaphors
urticaria
Product details
- ISBN 9780367105723
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 146 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Illness and the Patient's Other Story, the author shows in case after case that listening and responding to the "story" of patients suffering from persistent physical diseases frequently leads to major reversal of the disease processes. This present book takes a crucial second step. There must be an understandable basis for meaning-full diseases. Resistance to them relates in part to the inability of current Western scientific and biomedical theories to explain them. The author sets out to construct conceptual frameworks, within which clinicians and patients can see that a close relationship between life experience and the appearance of physical disease really does make sense.
Brian Broom
