ABSTRACT
Chapter Seven draws together the different threads of suffering as an individual experience and a reflection of the social world in which we are embedded by learning to think differently and diving deep. Drawing on the imaginal as a source of survival in difficult times in the face of entrenched inequities in health is restorative and may address the void created through narrative control and moral narcissism. Surviving health requires an awareness of the reversals in the social matrix of healthcare. The struggle with giving an account of oneself provides the detail and granularity necessary to process and be with suffering.
