Close to the Bone: LifeThreatening Illness and the Search for MeaningLife-saving, process. Close to the Bone follows the patients and their loved ones on a path which, soon after diagnosis, brings them into a kind of underworld of experience, a state of emotional trauma that has the potential to strip away what become merely superfluous concerns, focusing the individual on what is truly important. This process can be enhanced by prayer, meditation, participation in rituals, the sharing of stories, and a deeper and more honest level of. |
Contents
CONTENTS | 9 |
The Ground Gives Way Under | 23 |
Harbinger of Truth | 40 |
Sometimes We Need a Story | 91 |
Prayer | 129 |
Enacting Myth | 157 |
Helping Each Other | 179 |
Acknowledgments | 211 |
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Close to the Bone: Life-threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning Jean Shinoda Bolen No preview available - 1996 |
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