Well they could write up a case study on me and it would come to the complete opposite conclusion. A statement from my parents that 'God doesn't give you anything more than you can handle'. A God that is that evil tipped me completely into atheism and I relied on my own internal strengths to get where I am today.
- DOI:
- 10.1080/23312521.2014.990551
Robert Mundle
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pages 30-49
- Published online: 12 Mar 2015
Article Views: 1
This instrumental case study demonstrates the need for patients to be able to draw upon their own spiritual and religious vocabularies in order to reconstruct narrative self-continuity in the wake of debilitating illness. Through the presentation of case material taken from a series of semi-structured interviews with a 77-year-old female Roman Catholic patient who suffered a crisis of faith following a spinal cord injury and a stroke, the author illustrates key aspects of life history and religious beliefs and practices—such as lives of the saints, devotions, mystical experiences, sacred time, sacred symbols, and sacred space—to engage narrative ethics around typologies and therapeutic plots supplied by others. Narrative analysis of such discursive resources from the perspective of spiritual health can help inter-professional healthcare teams understand more fully patient needs and holistic best practices within rehabilitation environments.
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