By undergoing the often blame-filled psychotherapy offered by some groups, such as the Simonton Center, the patient would overcome cancer by consciously choosing to give up the emotional benefits he or she created the cancer for, and be healed. Write a customer review. I'd like to read this book on Kindle Don't have a Kindle? Susan Elizabeth Phillips Books. September 30, Language: Skip to main content. 
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For example, what Sontag originally called the "inimitable looniness" of Wilhelm Reich 's language was softened to the "inimitable coherence".
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In the last chapter, Sontag argues ala society's disease metaphors cause patients to feel as if society is against them. See Susan Sontag Documentary".
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Be the first to write a review About this product. Conversely, the literary critic and frequent Sontag detractor Camille Paglia described the book as "clumsy and ponderous, like a graduate-school seminar paper. East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. The item may have some signs of cosmetic mdtapher, but is fully operational and functions as intended. We're sorry, something went wrong. She believed that wrapping disease in metaphors discouraged, silenced, and shamed patients. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
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Her final argument is that metaphors are not useful for patients, since metaphors make patients feel as if their illness is due to their feelings, rather than lack of effective treatment.
The book contrasts the view points and metaphors associated with each disease.
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According to these proponents, patients brought cancer upon themselves by having a resigned, repressed, inhibited personality.
She notes the peculiar reversal that "With the modern diseases once TB, now cancerthe romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease—because it has not expressed itself.
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However, lack metaphee improvement from tuberculosis was usually seen as lack of passion in the individual.
How Cancer Becomes Us. So the reader is left with a case not fully made but points acutely established; enough, at any rate, susqn make him feel not only that he must in future watch his language but, with the same vigilance, watch his attitudes, prejudices, spontaneities. The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously. Ring Smart Home Security Systems. Skip to main content. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon.
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