Cultural poetics of illness and healing

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ID2395569
AuthorsL J Kirmayer (0000-0002-6228-1739, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Year2023
Volume60
Issue5
Pages753-769
Publication date2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTranscultural Psychiatric Research Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-1108 • E-ISSN: 0315-4386
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13634615231205544
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited113

This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry presents selected papers from the McGill Advanced Study Institute on 'Cultural Poetics of Illness and Healing.' The meeting addressed the cognitive science of language, metaphor, and poiesis from embodied and enactivist perspectives; how cultural affordances, background knowledge, discourse, and practices enable and constrain poiesis; the cognitive and social poetics of symptom and illness experience; and the politics and practice of poetics in healing ritual, psychotherapy, and recovery. This introductory essay outlines an approach to illness experience and its transformation in healing practices that emphasizes embodied processes of metaphor as well as the social processes of self-construal and positioning through material and discursive engagements with the cultural affordances that constitute our local worlds. The approach has implications for theory building, training, and clinical practice in psychiatry

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