| Making scenes: imaginative practices of a child with autism in a sensory integration-based therapy session. | |
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PMID: 19014014 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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A tension in medical anthropology, as an interdisciplinary field, exists between those polar territories of the logic--and therefore grammars--of a positivist-scientific stance of biomedicine and a literary-philosophical one used to represent experience. Taking up literary-philosophical and existential perspectives from anthropology proper, I draw on an ethnographic study of a sensory-integration-based clinic to propose that imaginative practices are one arena where such tension can be worked out. Enacted narratives, as a method, reveal how imaginative practices foreground the ways in which desire and hope are integral to healing. Kenneth Burke's (1969 [1945]) theory of dramatism, particularly his scene : act ratio, provides an analytic lens to examine the imaginary play of a singular session between a child with autism and an occupational therapist. Further, an interpretive frame that tacks between the positivist-biomedical and literary-philosophical discourses excavates how making scenes is integral to a healing of belonging and its embodiment. |
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Authors:
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Melissa Park |
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Type: Case Reports; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Medical anthropology quarterly Volume: 22 ISSN: 0745-5194 ISO Abbreviation: Med Anthropol Q Publication Date: 2008 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-11-18 Completed Date: 2009-02-02 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8405037 Medline TA: Med Anthropol Q Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 234-56 Citation Subset: IM |
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University of Los Angeles, California, USA. |
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Autistic Disorder
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ethnology,
therapy* Child, Preschool Humans Imagery (Psychotherapy) / methods Imagination Male Narration Play Therapy / methods* Sensation Speech |
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