Metaphorical Thinking and Disease Narrationunder the Narrative Context of Life and Health / 中国医学伦理学

By discussing metaphorical thinking and disease narrative under the narrative context of life and health, and clarifying both their correlation and their importance in the humanistic care, this paper aimed to advocate subjects of life to externalize their inner pain and anguish, help them with potential inspiration, self-empowerment as well as the repair of narration breakage in disease narration, and lead them into a healthy and harmonious narrative process of life. Metaphor and disease narrative are the essence of healing trauma and can construct the community relationship among narrative subjects.