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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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: Received: 5 September 2023 / Approved: 6 September 2023 / Online: 6 September 2023 (05:52:04 CEST)
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Peceguina, I.; Alcântara, I.; González, A. J. 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. Preprints2023, 2023090377. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0377.v1
Peceguina, I.; Alcântara, I.; González, A. J. 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. Preprints 2023, 2023090377. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0377.v1
Peceguina, I.; Alcântara, I.; González, A. J. 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. Preprints2023, 2023090377. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0377.v1
APA Style
Peceguina, I., Alcântara, I., & González, A. J. (2023). 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. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0377.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Peceguina, I., Iêda Alcântara and António José González. 2023 "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" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.0377.v1
Abstract
Using a humanistic and qualitative approach, the present study aims to (1) bring light on 1 the impact of clown doctors’ artistic work in pediatric oncology and, as a consequence, (2) contribute 2 to the refinement and improvement of the clown doctors’ intervention quality, in the context of 3 pediatric oncology, bringing hypotheses of reflection hardly met with quantitative approaches. We 4 are interested in the subjective experience of the artists, and the perceived subjective experience of 5 the child as reported by the clown doctors. The present analysis was developed from the clown 6 doctors’ final reports, their narrative, after visiting the pediatric oncology ward in a Portuguese public 7 hospital, for a continuous period of six months. The visits were performed by a clown doctor dyad, 8 and the audience was a young adolescent girl, with cancer, and her constant mother.9
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