Healing and the Invention of Metaphor

Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience

AvLaurence J. Kirmayer

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

It has long been understood that illness is influenced not only by our bodies' physiology, but also language, culture, and meaning. This book, written by renowned cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer, explores of the influence of metaphor, narrative, and imagination in experiences of suffering and processes of healing across cultures. It emphasizes how metaphor can open a window to the hidden mechanisms of healing driven by meaning and symbolism, myth and imagination. At the same time, it offers a rigorous critical account of the metaphors embedded in the epistemology and practice of contemporary biomedicine, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. In doing so, it exposes the sociomoral and political dimensions of these dominant approaches to understanding and treating illness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-31
Mått:229 x 152 x 25 mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:446
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009617796

Utforska kategorier

Klinisk psykologi inom Medicin
Psykiatri inom Medicin
Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin

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Laurence J. Kirmayer is Distinguished James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University. He directs the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry at Jewish General Hospital, Montreal. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

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'Laurence Kirmayer, a world leader of transcultural psychiatry, has written an exquisite and poetic book that places metaphor and the imagination at the center of medicine, healing and even human thought. It is a paradigm-changing work that is both inspiring and a joy to read.' Henry Abramovitch, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv Medical School & Founding President, Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology in honor of Erich Neumann

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Into the Backcountry; 2. The Body's Insistence on Meaning; 3. Broken Narratives; 4. Animal Powers; 5. Healing Fictions; 6. Landscapes of Memory; 7. The Texture of Time; 8. Poetics of Alterity; 9. Asklepian Dreams; 10. Epilogue: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Poiesis; Notes; References; Index.