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“Puzzling Questions” and the Poetry of Healing

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Human illness and healing are not simply technological problems, but are true mysteries. The highest response of the healer is to respond to the other by evoking the human mystery inside himself or herself Healing; at its highest calling, combines the technical mastery of the problem with the response of the whole human being to the mystery. That response of the whole human healer; with its rhythm and its figures of speech, its empathy and its scientific objectivity, its concreteness and application to the individual situation and its openness to the universal, is poetry.

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  1. Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, Jessup, MD, 20904, USA

    Stephen Rojcewicz M.D. (Staff Psychiatrist and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry)

  2. Georgetown University, 13808 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD, 20904, USA

    Stephen Rojcewicz M.D. (Staff Psychiatrist and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry)

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This paper was presented at a Panel on the Poetry of Healing at the National Association for Poetry Therapy 15th Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD on May 5, 1995

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Rojcewicz, S. “Puzzling Questions” and the Poetry of Healing. J Poetry Ther 8, 179–183 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391454

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