Disrupted Lives How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World

Name: Disrupted Lives How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World
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ISBN: 9780520209145

ISBN-10: 0520209141

ISBN-13: 9780520209145

Edition: 1998

Authors: Gay Becker

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Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor--a flat tire, an unexpected phone call--to the fateful--a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker follows hundreds of people to find out what they do after something unexpected occurs. Starting with bodily distress, she shows how individuals recount experiences of disruption metaphorically, drawing on important cultural themes to help them reestablish order and continuity in their lives. Through vivid and poignant stories of people from different walks of life who experience different types of…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 275
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Mediating Disruption



Narratives as Cultural Documents



Order and Chaos



Metaphors as Mediators in Disrupted Lives



The Disordered Body



Personal Responsibility for Continuity



Living in Limbo



Creating Order out of Chaos



Healing the Body through the Mind



Metaphors of Transformation



Disruption and the Creation of Continuity


Appendix: About the Research


Notes


References


Index