CURE Quote
Debates about the feminizing nature of needlework came to the fore during the First World War as it was prescribed to wounded soldiers returning from the front as a form of rehabilitative therapy. Medical and psychiatric authorities agreed that it could help restore physical dexterity, but more especially, soothe damaged nerves and minds. It had particular relevance to newly diagnosed conditions such as neurasthenia, or shell-shock, for which it was widely employed as a “rest cure”—as it had been in the treatment of “hysteria” in women since the nineteenth century.
— Johanna Amos & Lisa Binkley, Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts, 2019-
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Healing, Caring, Curing – Compared
Is healing curing? Is curing healing? Does caring cure? Does it heal? With the conceptual framework of the New Theory of Cure, we can look at these questions in a new light. In October 2023, I published a post on … Continue reading
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