Journal article
Narrative Repair: [Re]covery, Vulnerability, Service, and Suffering
Illness, Crisis and Loss, Vol.15(4), pp.137-388
2007
Abstract
This article explores the concept of recovery and the role of vulnerability in suffering. It examines our overall discomfort with vulnerability in the context of narratives of violence, disorder, and the everyday. This discomfort is explored through a voyage of three narrative types: testimony, chaos, and restitution narratives (Frank, 1995). The article offers that while loss and narrative despair are the characteristic response of vulnerability storytelling does not always, contrary to dominant perspectives in narrative therapy and practice, result in narrative repair. Narrative despair-the pain, mourning, grief, and loss involved in telling stories-is central to a recovery of vulnerability.
Details
- Title
- Narrative Repair: [Re]covery, Vulnerability, Service, and Suffering
- Authors
- Victoria Palmer (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Illness, Crisis and Loss, Vol.15(4), pp.137-388
- Publisher
- Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.
- Date published
- 2007
- DOI
- 10.2190/IL.15.4.f
- ISSN
- 1054-1373
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449690102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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