By Jeanette Ladegaard Knox DIS – University of Copenhagen Post Conference Ressources PowerPoint – download here Audio Presentation – listen here Audio Q&A – listen here Article October ’08 – download here Article November ’09 – download here |
Abstract
My presentation will reflect on how to apply philosophical practice in counseling patients who have survived a life threatening disease such as cancer and are now in a state of remission and rehabilitation but also faced with a multitude of existential issues, such as how to make sense of the experience or how to define oneself in the wake of a life changing event. These existential issues go straight to the core of philosophical inquiry. Can philosophy act as medicine for the soul and if so, in what way?