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The Unquiet Mind - Cancer: The Metaethical Quandary of Therapies (Hardcover)
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The Unquiet Mind - Cancer: The Metaethical Quandary of Therapies (Hardcover)
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Cancer is an emotive event, emotive because despite its obtrusion
into the body the assault is on the experiential realm of one'
being. The natural whim to survive or just be attains a new
perspective. This book is about how we incisively take recourse to
the experiences of a new meaning. Empathetically dwelling on the
emotional pain of cancer diagnosis, the need to purge, the need to
vent out to something one is conversant with becomes necessary.
Making the need for skilled communication even more urgent, this
emphasizes the role of the physician from a paternalistic one into
one who naturally flows into the rhythm of the healing process. The
protean nature of depression related to cancer also demands that
more meaning-oriented psychotherapies need to be embraced to
assuage the person at any given stage of the disease. Studies from
the 60s and recent ones have shown how psychedelic substances can
incite spiritual and existential insights, and can alter the dying
experience of a person into a process of spiritual growth. The
ethical demands entrenched with this form of therapy is under
immense speculation and the book dwells on this from the terminally
ill person's perspective.With the proclivity to heal, art is also
cathartic, as it allegorically allows the perceiver the liberty to
self-heal. Extending this to the repository of self- experience, we
have delved into how this act can mobilize the throes of the human
emotion and compel one to re-engage with the world; something
necessary to reckon with one's being.
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