Introduction: Words from the Editor -- An Unfortunate Loss of Trust / Roslyn Jones -- Reading the Patient and Reading the Self: an Analysis of the Place of Cultural Theory in Occupational Therapy / Lani R. Stockwell and Scott E. Hendrix -- Mandalas of Emotions as Add-on Therapy for Self-Healing and Resolution of Internal Conflicts in Cancer Treatment / Gabriela Salim Spagnol , Li Hui Ling and Li Li Min -- “Dialogue with Emotions” through the Eyes of Patients with Epilepsy and Caregivers / Gabriela Salim Spagnol , Jéssica Elias Vicentini , Isilda Sueli Andreolli Mira de Assumpção , Li Hui Ling and Li Li Min -- Self-Understanding and Self-Healing / Sônia Aparecida Bortolotto Torezan -- Presenting the Patient: through a Storytelling, Illness and Medicine Lens / Peter Bray -- Beginning to Breathe / Peter Bray -- Catching Stories: Building a House for Narrative and Communication in Digital Healthcare / Susana Teixeira Magalhães -- Keeping Track of Humanness in the Novel Never Let Me Go: Why Telling Matters / Susana Teixeira Magalhães -- Incendies: Singing, Silencing and Writing as Healing Strategies / Davina Marques -- A Postmodern Exploration of the Screened Dialogue between Past and Present and the Acceptance of Domestic Gender Performativity in Ventura Pons’ Barcelona (un mapa) (2007) / Jytte Holmqvist -- Developing Patient Oriented Design Criteria for Cmhcs in Turkey / Emine Gorgul , Nilay Unsal Gulmez and Ayse Imre Ozgen.

This book provides an insight into research conducted by participants attending The Patient: Examining Realities : 5th Global Conference, held in Oxford, England, 14-16 September, 2016. These attendees and subsequent volume contributors include medical professionals and healthcare providers employed by reputable academic institutions, and who take a both scientific and practical interest in the healthcare industry and its practices. The book also includes discourses by academics with a more theoretical interest in health and the complex doctor-patient relationship. Research presented herein is both steeped in cultural traditions and reflective of new trends in certain countries across the globe. Theories, practices and trends highlighted in the book are ultimately universal in that they concern all of us on a global level.