John Collier's "In the Forest of Arden"ARTMAGICK.COM
In his book It’s Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong wrote, “. . .cancer was the best thing that ever happened to me.” However extreme that claim may seem, it expresses the substance of a biomedical research agenda referred to as “benefit finding” or “posttraumatic growth,” whose aim is not only to document such changes but to determine whether they have desirable psychological and medical effects. Indeed, many people report that after confronting serious illness, they discover strengths formerly unrecognized or come to appreciate aspects of their lives they previously did not relish. Whether there are measurably favorable psychological or medical effects of these changes remains to be determined.
However, in addition to these explicit aims, there is considerable surplus meaning to the idea of ...
