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A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing
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Description
In winning prose as lucid as it is rich, Lynch accomplishes that rarest of results: a compellingly coherent epistemology of practice that privileges the wide view over the narrow specialization, appreciation of the whole over the reification of parts, and systemic sophistication over decontextualized detail. With a healthy respect for positivistic contributions to healthcare, she nonetheless reaches further, restoring humanity, relationship and meaning as priorities in the helping professions.
Key Features
- Compelling Insights: Explores the essential role of "sense of safety" in hermeneutic philosophy, transdisciplinary research, and compelling case studies.
- Holistic Approach: Fosters understanding of the integration of different elements of the person, including bodily experiences and relationships.
- Case Studies: Sensitive reflections drawn from the author’s life story and experiences in trauma care.
- Practical Application: Encourages reflection on key questions and pointers for action to promote healing.
Additional Information
Johanna Lynch’s book is a precious resource for ambitious primary care clinicians who strive not only to cure and fix in the narrow sense, but to understand and heal. Sense of safety represents a powerful "threshold concept"; once you have grasped its meaning and scope, there is no way back to not knowing. The argument is innovative, meticulous, and in full accord with contemporary evidence and theory, ranging from cellular biology to existential philosophy.
The key message of this book – that we need to establish a sense of safety in the moment with others, before we do anything else – is so important. Johanna’s model is brimming with wisdom and compassion. A lot of rich ideas to reflect on. I do hope the concepts in this book take hold in medicine and spread more broadly to society.
When systems pull our attention towards fragmentation, Johanna keeps our gaze on the whole person. She explores the way that threat and danger can affect the integrity of every fibre of our being, offering safety as a resource to those looking for ways to understand and respond to pain.
This is about illness and healing and so much more. It quietly challenges the traditions of medicine that serve to isolate disease and injury in order to treat it. It gives hope that transdisciplinary efforts can integrate knowledge for the benefit of humanity, carrying with it a commitment to the importance of the body’s lived experience in guiding support and intervention.