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Article: Cortney Davis, I Knew A Woman: the Experience of the Female Body.(Book Review)
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- Prairie Schooner
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- March 22, 2004
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Cortney Davis, I Knew A Woman: The Experience of the Female Body, Random House
Cortney Davis has written a remarkable book about the poetry and science of healing, about protocol and ritual, gnosis and diagnosis, and above all else she writes about the blossoming of hope. The laying on of hands. I Knew A Woman is a lyrical manifesto of Carl Jung's observation that "every personality has a story. Derangement happens when the story is denied. To heal, the patient had to rediscover his story." Davis writes that it is just as important to hear her patients' stories as it is to palpate abdomens or check reflexes.
>From her own experience, Davis knows that ...