Lecture 4 - Suffering and healing Flashcards
Suffering definition Cassell (2004)
Is a state of distress brought about by an actual or perceived threat to the integrity or continued existence of the whole person which includes cultural and social dimensions.
Pain vs Suffering
When pain has purpose it is not suffering, and hence requires no healing. When pain serves no useful purpose and appears to be unending then it is suffering, resulting in demoralisation, and seeking relief.
3 phases of regaining of voice
Mute suffering, expressive suffering (the narrative), finding an authentic voice
Liggins (2018) concepts of healing
an intensely personal process or journey, to make sound or whole, a journey backward to a previous state, forward movement and transformation, an active energy requiring process, serendipitous, multidimensional with physical, emotional, intellectual social ad spritual elements and varied individual emphasis, the relief or transcendance of suffering
Liggins (from Cassell 1982) description of suffering
the impending destruction of the person is perceived, it continues until the threat of disintegration has passed or until the integrity of the person can be restored in some other manner
Liggins (from frankl 1962) description of suffering
Suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment it finds a meaning
Intersectionality definition
Is the name we give to the enhancement of and diminution of out life chances according to out biographical attributes and how they can overlap, cancel, and reinforce each other
Structural suffering definition
Where we see a systemic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes ghat enhance and sustain wellbeing
Outline the social model of disability
Society is disabling - the manner in which circulating norms about what is an appropriate body shape, IQ, manner of moving, height etc restrict the life chances of people who demonstrate some perfectly ordinary form of difference from this norm
Predicament model of disability
The predicament model understands disability to be at once biologically based and socially constructed, where atypical functionality can, and often is, made restrictive within a society that was not made with atypical function in mind.
