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- Title
The Phenomenology of Healing: Eight Ways of Dealing With the Ill and Impaired Body.
- Authors
Leder, Drew
- Abstract
Encounters with illness, impairment, and aging can disrupt one's experiential relationship with self, body, others, and world. "Healing" takes place when the individual is able to re-integrate his or her world, even if the condition is not medically curable. Drawing on work in the phenomenology of the body, this article examines a series of eight "healing strategies" individuals employ, each representing a different way of orienting toward the painful or impaired body. One may lean into freeing oneself from the body, through strategies of "refusing," "ignoring," "objectifying," or "transcending" its problems. Conversely, one may choose to embrace the body, through strategies such as "accepting," "listening," "befriending," or "witnessing." It can be beneficial to have a good number of such coping strategies at one's disposal, enhancing flexible response to chronic challenges. They also are often used in synergistic or complementary combinations.
- Subjects
PHENOMENOLOGY; HEALING; AGING
- Publication
Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, 2022, Vol 47, Issue 1, p137
- ISSN
0360-5310
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jmp/jhab038