Healing and the Invention of Metaphor

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Angewandte Psychologie
Genre:	Importe , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781009617796
ISBN-10:	1009617796
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kirmayer, Laurence J
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Laurence J Kirmayer
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.07.2025
Gewicht:	0,642 kg