Illness as a crisis of meaning: Psycho-spiritual agendas in health care |
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Authors: | David Barnard PhD |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for the Medical Humanities, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas |
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Abstract: | The term psychosocial has come to refer to a host of issues in health care. Its wide, indiscriminate usage in referring to almost any non-biophysical aspect of illness obscures or distorts the experience of illness as a crisis of meaning. The term psycho-spiritual agenda is introduced to emphasize the problems of meaning associated with illness, and to avoid the potential reductionism, pathological skew, and interventionist bias of conventional psychosocial analyses of the illness experience. |
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