Sickness, Stigma and Spiritual Awakening A Transpersonal Paradigm for Women with Contested Illnesses【電子書籍】[ Bernadette Masterson ]

＜p＞The author set out to explore a phenomenon she had observed amongst a cohort of women living with chronic ≪invisible≫, or contested, illnesses. These women appeared to possess a high degree of altruism, ecological awareness, compassion, and a particular quality of empathic presence. What she didn’t expect to find in their narratives were the accounts of harrowing trauma they endured in the medical battleground of contested illnesses. They described the humiliating effects of being dismissed as reliable witnesses to what was happening in their own bodies, and the sequence of adverse consequences for their health and dignity which occurred as a fallout of not being believed by the medical establishment. The illnesses featured here include ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Electromagnetic Sensitivity, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, and Lyme disease. A blend of qualitative methods emerging from the fields of transpersonal theory and contemplative psychology was applied to explore the narrati．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る