Minding the Body

This important volume combines feminist and social constructionist approaches to offer an intimate look into the ways a therapist can help clients cope with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease. Including theoretical views and personal accounts of illness, Minding the Body shows therapists, doctors, nurses, counselors, and clients how to deal with the grief, disappointment, and frustration of chronic illness. Minding the Body offers an alternative to the reductive view of the mind-body connection and also examines the potential for growth that such experiences often allow.