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Reanimating the Body: Comics Creation as an Embodiment of Life with Cancer
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry ( IF 2.333 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 , DOI: 10.1007/s11013-020-09703-4
Juliet McMullin 1 , Sharon Rushing 1 , Mark Sueyoshi 2 , Jaroslava Salman 3
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Cancer is regarded as a disease that redefines an individual’s life and relationships. The medicalization and reclamation of the individual’s sense of body, self, and social life have been long examined by psychiatry and anthropology alike. We argue that creating comics is a form of artistic narrative that affirms and proclaims the existence of a past and future possibilities for individuals diagnosed with cancer. Despite the interconnections among lived experience and meaning making, little attention has been paid to the potential therapeutic effects of comics creation. Individuals diagnosed with cancer were recruited for ten weekly comics making workshops. Data include qualitative interviews and workshop observations. Six women who were diagnosed with cancer consented to participate. Meaning making themes included (1) slowing down to process their experiences, (2) expressing frustration with medical encounters, and (3) reflecting on traumatic relationships. The process of redefining their cancer experience connects the sufferer’s individual and social context. We find that the physical act of ‘making’ comics works to create meaning and an embodied expression of meaning. Creating comics, for our participants, offered multiple entry points and perspectives for redefining their stories that provided new insights and paths to explore their medical traumas and reanimating their bodies.



中文翻译:

重生身体:漫画创作是癌症生命的体现

癌症被视为一种重新定义个人生活和人际关系的疾病。精神病学和人类学长期以来一直在研究个体的身体、自我和社会生活意识的医疗化和恢复。我们认为,创作漫画是一种艺术叙事形式,它肯定并宣告诊断出患有癌症的个体存在过去和未来的可能性。尽管生活体验和意义创造之间存在联系,但很少有人关注漫画创作的潜在治疗效果。被诊断患有癌症的个人被招募参加每周十次的漫画制作研讨会。数据包括定性访谈和研讨会观察。六名被诊断患有癌症的女性同意参加。包括制作主题的意义 (1)放慢处理他们的经历,(2)表达对医疗遭遇的沮丧,以及 (3)反思创伤性关系。重新定义他们的癌症经历的过程将患者的个人和社会背景联系起来。我们发现“制作”漫画的物理行为可以创造意义和意义的具体表达。为我们的参与者创作漫画,为重新定义他们的故事提供了多个切入点和视角,为探索他们的医疗创伤和恢复他们的身体提供了新的见解和途径。

更新日期:2021-01-13
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