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- Eloquent Body
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- 2012
- Published by: Modjaji Books
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Eloquent Body explores the juxtaposition of healing and creativity both from a personal as well as medical point of view. Dawn Garisch works as a medical doctor and a writer in equal measure and advocates dialogue between our bodies and our creative selves. Her novel Trespass was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xi-xvi
- Part One: Talking to Myself Across the Table
- 2. Dancing to the Whistling
- pp. 12-23
- 3. The Story of Our Lives
- pp. 24-30
- 4. The Psyche Doesn't Speak English
- pp. 31-34
- 5. The Wounded Healer
- pp. 35-42
- Part Two: Fear: The Guardian with Two Faces
- 6. The Body is a Big Hook
- pp. 44-47
- 7. The Valley of the Shadow
- pp. 48-59
- 8. Of Detectives and Gardeners
- pp. 60-61
- 9. On the Fear of Failure
- pp. 62-65
- 11. Not Waving, but Drowning
- pp. 75-78
- 12. Denial, Deception and Illusion
- pp. 79-87
- 13. Physician, Heal Thyself
- pp. 88-96
- 14. Travels in the Eloquent Body
- pp. 98-118
- Part Three: Tracking the Truth
- 15. To Trust or not to Trust
- pp. 120-125
- 16. Instruments of Truth-finding
- pp. 126-128
- 17. Tracking the Truth as a Scientist
- pp. 129-135
- 18. Buying Health, Trading in Illness
- pp. 136-139
- 19. Seeing and Believing
- pp. 140-144
- 20. Sickness and Health
- pp. 145-151
- 21. Truth and the Artist
- pp. 152-158
- 22. Truth-finding Tools of the Artist
- pp. 159-163
- 23. Sharpening the Tools
- pp. 164-172
- Part Four: Heal Thyself
- 24. Non-Medicinal Ways to Loosen Torment
- pp. 174-179
- 26. Of Creativity, Connections and Healing
- pp. 184-187
- 27. Image and Imagination
- pp. 188-194
- 28. Going to Source
- pp. 195-197
- 29. Adequate Images
- pp. 198-206
- 30. Image and the Body
- pp. 207-216
- 31. Working with Image
- pp. 217-219
- 32. In Service
- pp. 220-223
- 33. The World in a Grain of Sand
- pp. 224-230
- 34. Living in the Crocodile's Mouth
- pp. 231-237
- 35. Recapturing the Original Plan
- pp. 238-240
- 36. Changing the End of the Story
- pp. 241-245
- 37. Of Knives and Glue
- pp. 246-250
- 38. Endings
- pp. 251-253
- Acknowledgements
- p. 265
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ISBN
9781920590208
Related ISBN(s)
9781920397395
MARC Record
OCLC
794904510
Pages
286
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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