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Therapeutic Metaphor Use: Lessons from Eating Disorder Autopathography
Recorded January 24, 2024. An interactive seminar by Jakob Summerer (TCD) Therapeutic Metaphor Use: Lessons from Eating Disorder Autopathography as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Ever since Susan Sontag’s pioneering studies Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Aids and its Metaphors (1989), research into the potential effects of metaphor use in health-related talk and thought has been a staple of the Medical/Health Humanities. Following in Sontag’s footsteps, scholars have focussed both on the ethical implications and stigmatising effects of metaphor use, as well as the…
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