Meaning-full disease : how personal experience and meanings cause and maintain physical illness / Brian Broom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broom, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Experience--Health aspects.

Experience.

Somatoform disorders.

Medicine, Psychosomatic.

Sick--Psychology.

Sick.

Personality--Health aspects.

Personality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The book is grounded upon Brian Broom's extensive professional involvement with physical diseases that are a powerful expression of the patients' emotional themes and life-stories. They are meaning-full diseases. They occur commonly, and are the most compelling argument for an urgent acknowledgment of the role of meanings in the healing process. Following the pattern of his first book, Somatic Illness and the Patient's Other Story, Broom shows in case after case that listening and responding to the "story" of patients suffering from persistent physical diseases frequently leads to major reversal of the disease processes. This present book takes a crucial second step. There must be an understandable basis for meaning-full diseases. Resistance to them relates in part to the inability of current Western scientific and biomedical theories to explain them. Broom sets out to construct conceptual frameworks, within which clinicians and patients can see that a close relationship between life experience and the appearance of physical disease really does make sense. His unapologetic grappling with the intellectual challenges comes with depth, breadth, and clarity, and appeals to a wide audience, including clinicians of all kinds - from doctors to psychotherapists - scientists, and serious lay-readers."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; 1. The phenomena; 2. Colliding mind-sets; 3. Somatic metaphors; 4. Language-making and disease; 5. Meaning-fulldisease explorers; 6. Disease as communication; 7. Who 'sees' meaning-full disease?; 8. Meaning-full disease and the lebenswelt; 9. Meaning-fulldisease and the 'visible'; 10. Shifting awareness and different kinds of body; 11. The scheming body; 12. Experience as a 'fundamental'; 13. Meaning-full disease and spirit; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91614-0

0-429-90191-7

0-429-47714-7

1-283-06925-3

9786613069252

1-84940-560-3

9780429477140

OCLC:

723944636