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Laurence J. Kirmayer
Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience
Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience
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- More about Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience
It 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.
- Publication date: 31 July 2025
- Page count: 446
- Dimensions: Height 162 mm; Width 237 mm; Thickness 31 mm
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN-13: 9781009617789
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