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Clown doctors in the Lento Tempo of Pediatric Oncology: A dialogue between psychology and art on the meaning of an encounter when life meaning is disrupted
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Abstract: Using a humanistic and qualitative approach, the present study aims to (1) bring light on the
impact of clown doctors’ artistic work in pediatric oncology and, as a consequence, (2) contribute to the
refinement and improvement of the clown doctors’ intervention quality, in the context of pediatric
oncology, bringing hypotheses of reflection hardly met with quantitative approaches. We are interested
in the subjective experience of the artists, and the perceived subjective experience of the child as reported
by the clown doctors. The present analysis was developed from the clown doctors’ final reports, their
narrative, after visiting the pediatric oncology ward in a Portuguese public hospital, for a continuous period
of six months. The visits were performed by a clown doctor dyad, and the audience was a young
adolescent girl, with cancer, and her constant mother.
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Pediatric oncology Artistic clown doctors Narrative analysis
Citation
Perceguina, I, Alcântara, I. & Gonzalez, A. J.(2023).Clown doctors in the Lento Tempo of pediatric oncology: A dialogue between psychology and art on the meaning of an eEncounter when life meaning is disrupted. Preprints.org.doi: 10.20944/preprints202309.0377.v1
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MDPY