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Narratives Of Illness, Difference, And Personhood, John P. Mctighe
Narratives Of Illness, Difference, And Personhood, John P. Mctighe
School of Social Work Faculty Publications
Using narrative theory, the chapter examines how ideas and attitudes about mental disorder are shaped by cultural values and stereotypes, and how the experience of trauma can shatter the narrative of self and world. Placing the question of illness, differentness, and personhood within a social justice perspective, it challenges clinicians to consider how the vocabulary of illness is used to frame experience and, in many cases, to minimize, marginalize, or discount the individual's own lived experience.