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Imitating Nathan Carlin’s correlational method in Pastoral Aesthetics, this essay provides an extended description of a patient care situation to consider what it means to reciprocally recognize someone as being able to make autonomous choices in health care. Next, Larry Graham’s concept of the interlocking brokenness of selves and worlds is explored in relation to the case and the concept of reciprocal recognition. And finally, borrowing from Graham, Albrecht Dürer’s engraving “Knight, Death and the Devil” is reinterpreted as a deformed structure of recognition, one that has relevance to patient care.
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Fanning, J.B. Respecting Autonomy through Reciprocal Recognition and Interlocking Brokenness. Pastoral Psychol 70, 617–625 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-021-00974-1
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