Erzählen(d) über den Tod hinaus

Eine ethnografische Studie über das Transformieren von generativen Erzählungen in der Würdezentrierten Therapie

By (author) Andrea Züger

Book cover: Erzählen(d) über den Tod hinaus

Extent: 216 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(November 2022)

ISBN: 9783847114888

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $62.00

In stock

Die generative Erzahlung in der Wurdezentrierten Therapie ist nicht nur in ihrer sprachlich-narrativen Dimension bedeutsam, sondern auch in ihrer leiblich-korperlichen und materiell-medialen Dimension.


In Dignity Therapy, people talk and others listen. A device records and someone types. The oral becomes written and the ephemeral becomes preserved. It is touched – not only the soul, but also paper – people read quietly and read aloud, someone leaves, and something remains. A document, a legacy, memories. Through the attentive description of this psychological intervention for seriously ill people, the understanding of the generative narrative as a multidimensional structure – of language, body-mind, materiality and mediality – and through the analysis of interpretation and attribution of meaning of the actors involved, Andrea Zuger not only offers impulses for professional therapeutic action and ethical questions with her cultural studies analysis, but also gives indications of potential effect mechanism.

  • By (author) Andrea Züger