From My Rotting Body, Flowers Shall Grow, and I Am in Them, and That Is Eternity

Potter, Polyxeni

doi:10.3201/eid1703.ac1703

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“…Death is a departure from communities, but not from the earth. As the painter Edvard Munch wrote approximately in 1890-1910 (Potter, 2011):…”

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The Bouquet of Death and Decay

Puhakka

2023

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“…Death is a departure from communities, but not from the earth. As the painter Edvard Munch wrote approximately in 1890-1910 (Potter, 2011):…”

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The Bouquet of Death and Decay

Puhakka

2023

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“…Well before clinicians developed an interest in using creative pursuits to occupy mental health patients, and before occupational therapy emerged as a discipline, the arts have been known to give meaning to illness (Sandblom ). As the painter Edvard Munch once reportedly stated: ‘Without illness and anxiety I would have been a rudderless ship’ (cited in Potter , p. 573). For Munch, the illness experience enriched his art and gave his life a purpose.…”

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Things you can learn from books: Exploring the therapeutic potential of eating disorder memoirs

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Flynn

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Int J Mental Health Nurs

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This paper explores the potential benefits that books, and specifically memoirs, might offer mental health students, positing that first-person testimonials might make the complex experiences of a mental health challenge, in this case, eating disorders, accessible to learners. The paper presents a pedagogical approach, based on transformative learning, to assist in encouraging the development of a recovery approach in students. Transformative learning is a pedagogy that is interested in problematic practices that keep afflicting an area, such as the imbalanced focus on learning illness, rather than well-being, and in pondering and revising the educational solutions. The paper proposes that forward movement in this area will be based on considering and developing such innovative curricula, and researching its impact. By virtue of their accessibility, memoirs could offer to a large audience the benefits of universality, empathy, hope, and guidance. Teachers and learners could be making use of these books in face-to-face or online activities. This paper explores the groundwork that is needed before eating disorder memoirs can be confidently recommended as a therapeutic tool.

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‘Following along with things’ in different ways Zhuangzi’s thoughts on how to manage external affairs

Ahn

2024

Asian Philosophy

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From My Rotting Body, Flowers Shall Grow, and I Am in Them, and That Is Eternity

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The Bouquet of Death and Decay

The Bouquet of Death and Decay

Things you can learn from books: Exploring the therapeutic potential of eating disorder memoirs

‘Following along with things’ in different ways Zhuangzi’s thoughts on how to manage external affairs

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