Languages of Care in Narrative Medicine

Chapter 1 Narrative Medicine and Narrative Care: Developments in the Field—The State of Art of Narrative Methodologies in Healthcare, Success and Pitfalls as Well as New Perspective on Methodologies

Chapter 2 Narrative Medicine Encounters on Language and Linguistics: Natural Semantic Metalanguage and the Role of Universal Words in Health and Illness

Chapter 3 Narrative Medicine Across Countries: Bridging the Gap of Cultural Differences Through Linguistic Methodology, from Universal to Local Cultural Scripts of Illness. The Narrative of an Intercontinental Collaboration on Linguistics

Chapter 4 Between Narrative Medicine and Storytelling in the Healthcare Ecosystem: Narrative Medicine and Medical Humanities and Their Impact on Education and Training of Healthcare Providers

Chapter 5 Among Health, Illness and Time: Chronic Disease, Waiting Time, Recovery, Perception of Time and Resting Time

Chapter 6 Curing the Language of Care: The Heaviness of the Prescriptive Jargon, Moving Towards a Lighter Language for Better Caring and Better Outcomes—Language, Music, Sound and Colour

Chapter 7 The Environment for Wellbeing: The Need for Therapeutic Places of Care and the Languages of Proportions and Colours

Chapter 8 Trauma and Coping Activation of Patients and Curers: Learning from Humanities Mythology (Odysseus and the Minotaur) and Fairy Tales (the Beauty and the Beast), Suicides and Recovery Practice

Chapter 9 Language of Emotions, with a Focus on Shame to Be Defeated: The Flower of Emotions and Their Role in a Post-contemporary Society

Chapter 10 The Language of Spirituality in the Pathway of Care. Hope, Good Relationships, Setting Priority, Inner Space and Divine Space, If Any. Patients’ Beliefs as a Starting Point to Engage in the Pathway of Care, Kindness and Compassion