Recognizing Spiritual Needs in People who are Dying
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 December 2003
- ISBN 9780198525110
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 231x154x13 mm
- Weight 442 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8pp colour plates 0
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Short description:
This book is based on the author's time spent with twenty five patients at St Christopher's Hospice in South London. The book aims to help carers understand and recognise spiritual issues even when religious language is not used. The author refers to this as a 'language of spirit'. It deals with death, dying, the experiences of patients and the relief of spiritual pain by looking closely at patient stories and behaviour.
MoreLong description:
Listening carefully to patients at the end of life is at the heart of good palliative care and this book provides a means of recognizing and talking about spiritual needs even when religious language is not used. The author refers to this as a 'language of spirit'. The book is based on interviews with patients who are dying and the language that they use to describe their experiences. It deals with death, dying, the experiences of patients and the relief of spiritual pain by looking closely at patient stories, drawings and behaviour.
The book explains why it is often easier to recognize than to explain spiritual issues. Part One explores the psychological, spiritual and theological interpretations of human experience. A detailed account is given of how the patients' own stories were collected. Drawing on a broad literature which is grounded in patients' words and deeds, Part Two introduces a non-religious 'language of spirit'. Illuminated by patient art, Part Three shows what patients use this language to 'say' about their situation and how it is mediated through various metaphors. Part Four suggests ways of responding positively to patients' spiritual needs.
Aimed primarily at palliative care specialists and specialist nurses, this book will also appeal to health care chaplains, pastoral support workers, theologians, social researchers, and psychotherapists.
'The numerous illustrations, given by patients comments as they tell their story, make this book a truly fascinating journey through an important area of end of life care.' Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE, FRCP, Founder/President, St Christopher's Hospice, London
'The emphasis on allowing patients to speak for themselves is striking... the author has presented the topic in a sensitive and refreshing way... I think this book will be well-received and it will be an important contribution to the literature of palliative care.' Dr Odette Spruyt, Head of Pain and Palliative Care Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, East Melbourne, Australia
...a rewarding read and of practical value...
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Part One - Understanding spirituality - how far can story go?
How stories create and disclose meaning
Spirituality and psychology: stories with differing limits
Stories in the 'listening': collecting data
A story in the making: data analysis and interpretation
Part Two - Spiritual concerns expressed in non-religious ways
Features of a 'language of spirit'
Part Three - Nine metaphors waiting to be recognised - how spirituality is mediated in the here and now
Patients' sources of meaning and sense of self
Marginality and liminality - metaphors of the edge or the way?
Metaphors of control
Metaphors of letting go
Archetypal hero
Archetypal mother
Archetypal stranger
Recognising life's 'surplus of meaning'
Part Four - Implications for spiritual care
Some inconclusive reflections
