Healing and the Invention of Metaphor - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009617789ISBN-10:1009617788UPC:9781009617789Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Clinical PsychologySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.68Product ID:SCFXPBP7SG
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009617789ISBN-10:1009617788UPC:9781009617789Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Clinical PsychologySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.68Product ID:SCFXPBP7SG
Kirmayer, Laurence J.: - 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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