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Wellness: The Dialectic of Illness
Author(s) -
Jensen Louise,
Allen Marion
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1993.tb00785.x
Subject(s) - dialectic , psychology , epistemology , philosophy
From a review of empirical and theoretical work, a model of wellness‐illness evolved. The unfolding of events associated with wellness‐illness is depicted as a generic paradigm with health, disease, wellness and illness existing in a dialectical relationship. Although distinct, health‐disease and wellness‐illness are neither mutually exclusive nor polar opposites. Rather, they are one in the same process, acknowledging the changing person in the changing world. Wellness‐illness is the human experience of actual or perceived function‐dysfunction through the interaction of cognitive‐affective dimensions. This experience arises out of intrapersonal, interpersonal, health‐disease‐related and extra‐personal factors.