BookVinita Agarwal.
Summary: With an increasing number of individuals living with chronic illness and pain, integrative approaches offering self-management support are needed. This book proposes a multi-layered framework integrating the body/self/environment that cultivates wholeness as an authentic embodied presence in alignment with a reflexive self.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Chapter One The Wholeness Project
Chapter Two A Social Constructionist Epistemology
Chapter Three The Reflexive Self
Chapter Four The Embodied Self
Chapter Five The Discursive Body
Chapter Six The Material Body
Chapter Seven Time, Change, and Illness Intrusion
Chapter Eight Traditional Health Systems
Chapter Nine Food, Nature, and Body/Self-Integration
References
Index
About the Author