Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest

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Autor(a) principal: Correia, Alda
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/18690
Resumo: In her book Illness as Metaphor (1978) Susan Sontag writes that “everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place”. Illness is therefore a kind of travel into another space and kingdom and it can be felt as a frightening journey. The stages of the archetypal hero quest journey can be perceived in the patient evolution, namely their reflexive quality. Narrative medicine can enable the patient to take over the reins of this journey, to look at himself and re-evaluate every moment of existence, to reconsider the steps of the way in a relatively distanced and self analysing attitude. This paper will show how the patient evolution can be interpreted as a journey quest and how narrative medicine can support this purpose.
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title Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest
spellingShingle Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest
Correia, Alda
Illness
Journey
Patient
title_short Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest
title_full Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest
title_fullStr Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest
title_full_unstemmed Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest
title_sort Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest
author Correia, Alda
author_facet Correia, Alda
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Correia, Alda
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Illness
Journey
Patient
topic Illness
Journey
Patient
description In her book Illness as Metaphor (1978) Susan Sontag writes that “everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place”. Illness is therefore a kind of travel into another space and kingdom and it can be felt as a frightening journey. The stages of the archetypal hero quest journey can be perceived in the patient evolution, namely their reflexive quality. Narrative medicine can enable the patient to take over the reins of this journey, to look at himself and re-evaluate every moment of existence, to reconsider the steps of the way in a relatively distanced and self analysing attitude. This paper will show how the patient evolution can be interpreted as a journey quest and how narrative medicine can support this purpose.
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