The feeling of the body in the profession of dietitian. A narrative from oneself

The feeling of the body in the profession of dietitian. A narrative from oneself In this paper we propose the conceptual aspects of the narrative biography as a training tool for dietitian students training at the General Hospital of the University of Naples Federico II. From consideration of the body as bio-psychological endowment of the organism, but also as a representation of one’s identity, as mental organization of impulses from somatic sources and as an image of the body comes the importance of this issue in the training path of professionals to health care and education, therefore, can not be ignored by the educational discourse: the training act must have its counterpart in the body, as party to the complex process of signification that makes an individual a subjectivity, and as a medium to reach the thought. Therefore, we collected the papers written by the students of Bachelor in dietician who was asked to describe the observed activity and to tell the personal experience through the narrative construction of their personal feeling of body, understood as a living body which contains the registration of its history and its gender. This gave students the opportunity to fill the void of meaning which sometimes exposes the relationship with users, allowing you to recover what comes before the word: the identity of the body, emotions, sensations, the proto-mental at the origin of our becoming that evokes, anticipates our narratives. Moreover, the cure is transmitted not only through the intellectual channel but also with bodily communication, gestures, voice, the vital energy that runs through the raining field, creating an empathic area, a distinctive feature of what we call "relationship". This allowed students to investigate the "body-person" in a context, the hospital, where it is usual to talk about organisms or summation of organs, knowable and analyzable, thanks to new techniques of biomedical devices, and in a media society whose main character is not the body-living, but the body-object struggling with the performance. The narratives are a legacy of wealth for the strong involvement of students in telling their own work and human experiences. The analysis of these witnesses has resulted an inventory of emerging issues in the management of the relationship in the contexts of health education where the subject can reach the self-care and motivate himself to pro health behaviors: only in this way we can encourage a genuine motivation and an effective involvement in the care pathway.In this way students are able to grasp one of the key features that must characterize a model of education: the ability to build the relationship with people and find more effective therapeutic alliance. Further objective of the research has been to show how we can create contexts for thinking and learning through the stories, suggesting a particular style of education and training: based on communication and interview to place themselves beyond the traditional scope and come to understand the meanings of our thoughts, behaviors and instruments.