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Introduction: (Mental) Health Care in the Age of Globalization or the Potentials of a Migratory Aesthetics Introduction: (Mental) Health Care in the Age of Globalization or the Potentials of a Migratory Aesthetics
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The Productivity of a Postcolonial Theoretical Framework: Transcultural—Diverse—Related The Productivity of a Postcolonial Theoretical Framework: Transcultural—Diverse—Related
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The Power of the Spoken Word: Narration as Transnational Cultural Technique The Power of the Spoken Word: Narration as Transnational Cultural Technique
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Writers, Shamans, Curanderas Writers, Shamans, Curanderas
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Oedipus in China: Risks, Side Effects, and Potentials Oedipus in China: Risks, Side Effects, and Potentials
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Conclusion: The Power of a Migratory Aesthetics in Globalized Mental Health Care Contexts Conclusion: The Power of a Migratory Aesthetics in Globalized Mental Health Care Contexts
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27 An Aesthetics of Relating and Its (Therapeutic) Potentials: A Transcultural Perspective on Literature, Storytelling, and the Power of the (Spoken) Word
Get accessDr Katharina Fürholzer, University of Rostock, Germany
Associate Professor Julia Pröll, Institute for Romance Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Published:16 August 2023
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Abstract
In light of ongoing biomedical processes of globalization closely linked with the emergence of ‘medicoscapes’, the proposed article focusses on issues of transcultural psychiatry and intercultural psychotherapy from the viewpoint of literary criticism. Drawing on the importance (Critical) Medical Humanities recently attached to culture—and its crucial impact on (mental) illness experience—the main purpose of this paper is to relate, in a postcolonial theoretical framework, Western and non-Western conceptions of mental illness, health, and cure in order to explore the emerging contact zones and to overcome the unproductive ‘othering’ of medical exoticism considering non-Western forms of healing and therapy as mere curiosities. As key link we will consider the (trans-)cultural technique of narrating (life) stories as it appears in an anglophone and francophone corpus of (not only migrant) literature. As some sort of ‘third space’ or ‘contact zone’, literature, especially when governed by a migratory aesthetics of relating, can be seen as a constant reminder of the irreducible heterogeneity of (medical) cultures as well as a negotiating space that not only builds bridges between the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ but encourages to undertake a salutary ‘self-limitation’ of hegemonic (bio-)medical paradigms, as can be shown, for instance, by productive fictional ‘sinicizations’ of Western psychoanalysis.
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