在过去的二十年里,对临床医生和专职卫生专业具有重要现实意义的健康和疾病现象学学术激增。“治愈”与医学“治愈”不同,因为它涉及一个存在的重新整合过程,即使面对持续的疾病和无能。这篇文章比该领域的许多现有文献更进一步:它研究了疾病可以触发某些“转化性愈合”的方式-也就是说,不仅仅是回到以前的功能,但积极的改变,打开一个人的生活,以增强成就感,真实性和/或连接。利用哲学资源和“病理学”,关于疾病和康复的第一人称,我们检查六种形式,经常相互联系,转型愈合。这些涉及,反过来:脆弱性,亲密,弹性,存在,感恩和超越在关注严重疾病的方式时,伤害和残疾可以告知积极的转变,我们并没有减少经常与这种情况相关的痛苦。尽管如此,许多人经历了生活的改善,尽管,甚至因为,痛苦的影响可以揭示个人优势,加深了与他人的亲密关系,提高了对生活的欣赏。转化愈合的可能性,虽然远非普遍的经验,有个人,哲学和临床意义不容忽视。
In the last two decades, there has been an explosion of scholarship in the phenomenology of health and illness of great practical significance for clinicians and the allied health professions. \'Healing\' has been distinguished from medical \'cure\' insofar as it involves a process of existential re-integration even in the face of ongoing illness and incapacity. This article goes further than much existing literature in the field: it examines ways in which illness can trigger for some \'transformational healing\'-that is, not simply a return to previous functioning, but positive alterations that open one\'s life to enhanced fulfilment, authenticity and/or connection. Using philosophical resources and \'pathographies\', first-person accounts of illness and healing, we examine six forms, often interconnected, of transformational healing. These involve, in turn: vulnerability, intimacy, resilience, presence, gratitude and transcendence In placing a spotlight on ways in which serious illness, injury and disability can inform positive transformations, we are not minimising the suffering often associated with such conditions. Nonetheless, many individuals experience life-enhancements despite, or even because of, the effects of suffering which can reveal personal strengths, deepened intimacy with others and heightened appreciation of life. The possibility of transformational healing, while far from a universal experience, has personal, philosophical and clinical significance not to be overlooked.