I want to tell you a story. This is a story about stories. As in any good story, we’re going to wander down a few storied paths. One of the paths leads back to 3 award-winning stories.* Remarkable stories by remarkable physicians who take seriously the power of stories—who have written powerful stories. Another path is about the importance of stories for human health and well-being from the per...

Madeline Miller is one of the most renowned "revisionist mythmakers" in 21st century. Miller's prize-winning novel Circe (2019) an attempt to recreate histories mythological past revised versions herstories. intends deconstruct phallogocentrict narrations which have established literary canon by recreating same stories from a feminist perspective. To do so, she rewrites myth who formidable sorc...

Scholars remain divided today over the origin and identity of the Wisdom Woman in Prov. 1-9. Many roads run back to her door through mythological, 2 sapiential, 3 apocalyptic, 4 rabbinic 5 and early Christian 6 circles of tradition. Attempts to pursue her prior to the book of Proverbs remain difficult, a problem for which at least four solutions have been proposed.

F AMILY RELATIONSHIPS, especially the disruptive potential of libidinal and aggressive drives within the nuclear family, are among the most common themes of mythology. The theme of twinship in mythology can be seen as the focus of real and projected psychological tensions and their imagined or preferred solutions. Mythological fascination with twins and twinship and some parallels between ancie...