Abstract
Care relationships are based on a daily exercise of the senses that requires proper education and training. The capacity of seeing the patient in his/her existential dimensions, and not only as the bearer of a disease, is the first sensitive skill that a professional caregiver must learn and improve. Painting and visual arts can provide useful experiences in order to develop a phenomenology of sight and gaze and to cultivate the attitude to grasp narrative and symbolic dimension beyond inmediate appearances. This article present the experience of a training workshop focused on sharpening the ability to look at another person with depth of understanding and foresight.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Care in the gaze: figurative arts and writing |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Title of host publication | Espressioni di cura. Medicina narrativa in oncologia - V edizione |
| Pages | 56-64 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Care
- Cura
- Education
- Formazione
- Medical humanities
- Medicina narrativa
- Narrative medicine