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This book contains a foreword by Elliot G Mishler – professor of Social Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Patients’ views of their identity change with illness, as do health professionals’ views of them. This book discusses how and why this happens, and examines how more awareness of this phenomenon can lead to better care. Providing examples from diverse clinical settings, “The Self in Health and Illness” brings together writers from a r… More >>
The Self in Health and Illness: Patients, Professionals and Narrative Identity
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