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Healing and the invention of metaphor : toward a poetics of illness experience /

"This book presents an integrative approach to the place of language, metaphor, imagination, and symbolic action in illness experience and diverse forms of healing and psychotherapy. It will interest anyone who seeks to better understand how language shapes symptoms and suffering, and how metap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirmayer, Laurence J., 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Metaphor > Health aspects.
Metaphor > Therapeutic use.
Psychotherapy > Methodology.
Cognitive grammar.
Métaphore > Emploi en thérapeutique.
Psychothérapie > Méthodologie.
Grammaire cognitive.
Table of Contents:
  • Into the backcountry
  • The body's insistence on meaning
  • Broken narratives
  • Animal powers
  • Healing fictions
  • Landscapes of memory
  • The texture of time
  • Poetics of alterity
  • Asklepian dreams
  • Epilogue: Ethics, aesthetics and poiesis.