The study explores the mediated nature of illness stories through the lens of narrative medicine, drawing on Arthur W. Frank's typology of restitution, quest, and chaos stories and Rita Charon's intersubjectivity to argue that narrative plot functions as a key mechanism for producing meaning and relational understanding in experiences of illness and difference.
Abstract
The study explores the mediated nature of illness stories through the lens of narrative
medicine, drawing on Arthur W. Frank’s typology of restitution, quest, and chaos stories and on Rita
Charon’s intersubjectivity. It examines how wounded voices are shaped and transmitted through
different forms of mediation, including assisted communication, parental narration and interpretative
reconstruction. The analysis focuses on Naoki Higashida’s The Reason I Jump, Ana Dragu’s Mâini
cuminți. Copilul meu autist, and Matei Călinescu’s The Portrait of M. The study further considers the
intersubjective dynamics of authorship, readership and empathy, arguing that narrative plot functions
as a key mechanism for producing meaning and relational understanding in experiences of illness and
difference.
This article shines a light on the range of narrative processes through which descendants of Armenian Genocide
(
Medz Yeghern
) survivors have inherited and reinterpreted traumatic histories within diasporic family
contexts. Focusing on a selection of survivors who were children in 1915 (the “1.5 generation”),...
Abstract This article describes the importance of creating an attentive narrative relationship in psychotherapy. We live in a distracted world where information exchange and storytelling are replacing narratives. The loss of narration and of the time needed to listen, which makes narrating possible, entails risks from...
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This study employs Arthur Frank’s illness narrative typology to analyze Shormistha Mukherjee’s Cancer, You Picked The Wrong Girl: A True Story (2021). It examines how this work challenges the prevailing biomedical restitution narrative, which conceptualizes illness as a temporary disruption followed by recovery. The se...
B. Gouri, S. V., Manali Karmakar· Theory and Practice in Langu...· 0 citations
This article analyzes Alice Munro’s “Forgiveness in Families” using trauma theory and rites of passage frameworks to examine how narrative voice enacts developmental arrest. Drawing on Bowlby’s attachment theory, Herman’s trauma model, and Turner’s rites of passage, the study examines how maternal overindulgence and...
Drawing on Miranda Fricker’s account of testimonial injustice, this autoethnographic prose poem explores experiences of menopausal embodiment and medical consultation through an arts-based research lens. The prose poem form is used methodologically to represent the fragmentation, unpredictability and sensory intensity...
This article examines the narrative of Adam and Eve from the perspectives of psychology of religion and spiritual counseling and care, drawing on the therapeutic functions of sacred texts. Grounded in the long-standing healing power of narratives, bibliotherapy is discussed within the context of sacred texts, with part...
Merve Altınlı-Macić, Süeda Akgün· Spiritual Psychology and Cou...· 0 citations
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