{"product_id":"healing-and-the-invention-of-metaphor-toward-a-poetics-of-illness-experience-hardback-9781009617789","title":"Healing and the Invention of Metaphor; Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience (Hardback) 9781009617789","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHealing and the Invention of Metaphor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eToward a Poetics of Illness Experience\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores how language, stories, and metaphors shape illness experience and the process of healing and psychotherapy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaurence J. Kirmayer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009617789, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e446 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.828 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Laurence Kirmayer asks why his psychiatric perspective and biomedical ethics fail to connect meaningfully his patients' symptoms and their suffering. He outlines how the recent emphasis on narrative-based ethics imposes a distorting temporal and causal path on suffering and the self. At the core of this book is an enthralling presentation of seven dreams of a psychiatric intern that function as rationale for and defense of a poetics of illness in which, not ratiocination but myth and archetype autonomously lend meaning and evoke experiences of healing.' Craig E. Stephenson, author of Possession: Jung's Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche, Anteros: A Forgotten Myth, and Ages of Anxiety\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Into the Backcountry\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Body's Insistence on Meaning\u003cbr\u003e 3. Broken Narratives\u003cbr\u003e 4. Animal Powers\u003cbr\u003e 5. Healing Fictions\u003cbr\u003e 6. Landscapes of Memory\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Texture of Time\u003cbr\u003e 8. Poetics of Alterity\u003cbr\u003e 9. Asklepian Dreams\u003cbr\u003e 10. Epilogue: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Poiesis\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Clinical psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Clinical psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Clinical%20psychology%20%5BMMJ%5D%22\"\u003eMMJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52415669960984,"sku":"9781009617789","price":82.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009617789i.jpg?v=1784421557","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/healing-and-the-invention-of-metaphor-toward-a-poetics-of-illness-experience-hardback-9781009617789","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}