January 1996
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9 Reads
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75 Citations
Social Science & Medicine
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January 1996
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9 Reads
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75 Citations
Social Science & Medicine
... Listening for the evocative meaning of metaphors requires a kind of openness and attentiveness to the body and the other that can foster both empathy and creative imagination (Cox and Theilgaard 1997). A poetics of illness experience that clarifies the personal, social, and cultural roots of the metaphors with which both laypeople and professionals frame symptoms, illness, and afflictions can enable clinicians to more clearly hear and respond to the predicaments that are patients' central concerns (Katz and Shotter 1996;Kirmayer 2023). This response can go beyond recognition and acknowledgement to include the co-construction of new metaphors that allow patients to find ways out of their impasse (Witztum 1988;Siegelman 1993;Törneke 2020). ...
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Toward a poetics of illness and healing
January 1996
Social Science & Medicine