Dancing with monsters
Subtitle: chronic illness as creative transformation
By: Kate Wolfe-Jenson
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: [iUniverse]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Bloomington, Ind.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781453686331
Subjects: Biography; Multiple sclerosis; Patients; Chronically ill; Conduct of life; Monsters; Sclérose en plaques; Biographies; Monstres
Description: This is a book about monsters. Not the cute, laughably incompetent ones you see in animated movies, but the ones you meet in your own life: ugly thoughts, unexpected losses, inexcusable evils. A decade after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Kate discovered that what she knew about creativity and transformation could help her deal with the frustrations of living with chronic illness and of life in general. Through memoir, essay, and fanciful stories, this book explores the landscape of chronic illness, describes its contours, and invites you to choreograph a dance with your own monsters, whatever they may be.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Discovering the dance; title: Part two. Overwhelm; title: Part three. Incubation; title: Part four. Reconciliation; title: Part five. Rededication.