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Dear Colleagues,

In the Special Issue “Healthy even through cancer—What Are the Assumptions and Outcomes for Psychological Intervention”, researchers pointed out that outcomes for psychological intervention derive from interaction not only between patient and the neoplasm, symptoms, therapies’ side effects, and postoperative diseases, but also between patients and emotional, social, and supportive experiences. In this regard, health entails the possibility of narrating and encompassing these interactions.

Interactions are held in narratives: speech and verbal expression are considered qualitative aspects. However, the data on these are not on the same level as that of other health records, despite reflecting critical information for the clinical pathway and oncological care. In future, these observations should be applied in a clinical setting. Thus, let us answer this question: how health is narrated in oncological settings?

We aim to address some outstanding questions from the previous Special Issue:

What is a proper collection of critical data for cancer research and patient care regarding the narrations used by patients, health care professionals and caregivers? In what ways can narration supplement oncological information? What are the methods and the techniques used? What is the most critical and useful rhetoric in oncological field and in hospital settings.

“Healthy even through cancer—The use of narrations in oncological settings” will explore oncological patient narrations and restore the reality of events through dialogue with the patient.

Original articles, research protocols, reviews and theoretical contributions are welcome.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Eleonora Pinto
Guest Editor

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Open AccessArticle

Self-Narrative in a Therapeutic Group Pathway for Cancer Patients. Discussion of the Group Narrative Psychotherapy Intervention Initiated at the Veneto Institute of Oncology: IOV IRCCS of Padua

by Letizia Iannopollo, Grazia Cristaldi and Alessandra Feltrin

Behav. Sci. 2024, 14(5), 376; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/bs14050376 - 29 Apr 2024

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Abstract

The following article proposes a reflection on the experience of Narrative Therapy of a group of cancer patients, non-homogeneous for sites and stages of disease, participating to a therapeutic writing path, in order to process the trauma reactive to cancer and to reflect on themselves. Taking inspiration from the assumption that “writing helps when people are faced with a stumble”, facilitating the process of distancing from life-events, each writer establishes either context, in a more intimate and true way, or memories and emotions connected to it, in order to express them to the group and to themselves too, and to identify new adaptation styles. The therapeutic path lasted eight meetings, during which some themes were chosen to guide the written reflection, which was carried out at home, and then shared with the group. The therapeutic path is an opportunity to adjust the perspective with which the specialist accompanies patients during the adaptation process to the disease, moving from the “explanation” to “comprehension”; from symptom to “sense”. The group narration is based on a relational perspective of co-construction of the meaning of experiences, highlighting the different roles and relevance of the factors involved. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Healthy Even through Cancer—the Use of Narrations in Oncological Settings)

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