Suffering and Healing Flashcards
What is Youngers view on suffering?
Younger argued that suffering was about losing community and becoming self immersed, making it difficult to be supported by the people around you, lose capacity to maintain social appropriateness
What is Cassells definition of suffering?
Cassell defines suffering as a state of distress brought about by a threat that breaks apart our sense of who we are
Why pain and suffering are not quite the same?
Pain sometimes has a purpose whereas suffering is a lot more complex and where pain is unending - we feel that there is no point to the pain we are experiencing
How can we heal from suffering?
Younger argues that if we can regain our voice we can heal from our suffering, there are three phases. Mute suffering (making noise but no one can hear you), expressive suffering (why did this happen to me?) and finding an authentic voice (something you can believe in)
What narratives are associated with suffering?
Chaos narrative is associated with suffering, quest and witness helps us move forward and restitution story helps us be cured
How is healing shown in a faith based setting?
Health to some cultures or faiths may not purely be based on physical attributes of health, more so related to how in touch they are with their spiritual beliefs and relationships with higher powers, living your life as Jesus did so that death is the ultimate healing
How is healing shown in biomedicine?
Refers to resolving emotional difficulties - recovering from traumas by participating in lay support groups etc. Using placebos to instil hope and psychological healing
How does Helman believe healing to work?
Healing can be seen through language, ritual and manipulation of cultural symbols
How does Kleinman believe healing to work?
Label something as a sickness, label something that will intervene with the sickness, manipulate something to make the sickness go away, healing is applied independently of behavioural or social change
How does Moerman believe healing to work?
Healing emerges from the depth of the meanings we create from our sufferings
