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EVENT: ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

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Today's date is Friday, March 29, 2024
ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Counselling and psychotherapy for people that present with physical symptoms: charting sense making and experiential change over time Other events...
Presenting ideas on the lived experience of people suffering with symptoms that are medically unexplained or diagnostically uncertain, based on practice experience, patient consultations and reviews of the literature. Particular issues that loom large include not feeling understood, relationship breakdown, stigma, and loss of identity. I will discuss the challenges surrounding establishing the therapeutic relationship and the process of reattribution – the recognition of the psychosocial contexts in which physical symptoms acquire meaning. In averting alienation and building trust, I’ll argue against asserting a psychological interpretation for the symptoms. Instead physical symptoms may be treated as signposts, having an indexical quality. In a collaborative work, the scenarios in which symptoms flare up are analysed to discern common patterns.
Speaker(s) John Hills, PhD student, University of Leeds, UK
Location Social Sciences Building Rm 2204
Contact Hayley Musson <[email protected]>
Start Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:30
End Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:30
Submitted by Hayley Musson <[email protected]>
Last Updated Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:08
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