Dying, Bereavement and the Healing ArtsGillie Bolton Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15 okt 2007 - 216 pagina's Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like writing and performing a play. |
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... suffer more than they need, and enjoy fewer of life's experiences. Most people would consider art is reserved for special people: artists, denying others a vital panoply of experience. The more unhelpful boundaries that can be dissolved ...
... suffering, healing, medical practices: every aspect of life (Charon 2000b; Evans 2003; Salinsky 2002). Art can inform about how emotions work on people, how people think and communicate, how they relate to others, and about the impact ...
... suffering. Watching Frank bring a smidgeon of order to his world by making a mosaic tile mirror, I realise that our use of digital technologies in palliative care is not as far removed from this activity as I had once assumed, for both ...
... suffering and bereavement in a manner different from but no less penetrating than clinical analysis (Bertman 1991, 1999). Paradoxically they both reduce and at the same time heighten reality by giving it another dimension. For reality ...
... suffering soul towards hope to survive the death? Medical and healthcare professionals are trained to solve problems: to assess, diagnose and treat. For them, a journalistic approach of a mantra of five questions (What? Why? When? How ...
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6 Healing Arts in Palliative Care | 57 |
7 Imagination and Health in Cancer
Care and Palliative Care | 67 |
8 Visual Art in Cancer Care
and Palliative Care | 72 |
14 A Legacy of Understanding | 139 |
15 Reading to Help Practitioners
and Patients | 148 |
Survivors | 156 |
Artists | 164 |
Memorial Services | 176 |
19 The Art of Care | 186 |
20 Reflections Towards the Future | 200 |
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
| 204 |
9 Making Music in Childrens
Hospices | 88 |
10 Healing Writing in Palliative Care | 98 |
A Palliative Care Play | 113 |
12 The Power of Music | 120 |
13 Writing through Bereavement | 126 |
REFERENCES
| 207 |
SUBJECT INDEX
| 212 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 215 |
back cover
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