Meaning-full disease : how personal experience and meanings cause and maintain physical illness /
This book is about the nature of meaning, the relationship of meaning to the body, and the way in which meaning expresses itself in our health or lack of it. In another way it is about the conjunction of mind, body, and spirit. In a more practical perspective, the message is that meaning-full diseas...
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London :
Karnac,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- The phenomena
- Colliding mind-sets
- Somatic metaphors
- Language-making and disease
- Meaning-full disease explorers
- Disease as communication
- Who 'sees' meaning-full disease?
- Meaning-full disease and the lebenswelt
- Meaning-full disease and the 'visible'
- Shifting awareness and different kinds of body
- The scheming body
- Experience as a 'fundamental'
- Meaning-full disease and spirit
- Bibliography
- Index.
