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Palmer, Victoria. "Narrative Repair: [Re]covery, Vulnerability, Service, and Suffering." Illness, Crisis & Loss 15, no. 4 (October 2007): 371–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/il.15.4.f.

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This article explores the concept of recovery and the role of vulnerability in suffering. It examines our overall discomfort with vulnerability in the context of narratives of violence, disorder, and the everyday. This discomfort is explored through a voyage of three narrative types: testimony, chaos, and restitution narratives (Frank, 1995). The article offers that while loss and narrative despair are the characteristic response of vulnerability storytelling does not always, contrary to dominant perspectives in narrative therapy and practice, result in narrative repair. Narrative despair…the pain, mourning, grief, and loss involved in telling stories…is central to a recovery of vulnerability.
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Lipman, Arthur G. "NARRATIVE, PAIN, AND SUFFERING." Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 25, no. 1 (March 15, 2011): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/15360288.2010.546497.

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Wilson, Peter R. "Narrative, Pain, and Suffering." Pain Medicine 7, no. 3 (May 2006): 276–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-4637.2006.00161.x.

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Noble, T. W. "Narrative, Pain and Suffering." British Journal of Anaesthesia 96, no. 2 (February 2006): 274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bja/aei633.

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Larsson, Jan-Olov. "Narrative, pain and suffering." Acta Paediatrica 95, no. 5 (January 2, 2007): 638–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.2006.tb02308.x.

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Bochner, Arthur P. "Suffering Happiness." Qualitative Communication Research 1, no. 2 (2012): 209–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/qcr.2012.1.2.209.

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The author develops a dialectical conception of happiness—a suffering happiness—that can clarify autoethnography's existential convictions and ethical commitments. Autoethnography should produce an ethical connection to the other's suffering, a desire to transform the material conditions of the other's heartbreaking circumstances, increasing the possibility of happiness and a good life. The question of how we can make life better is the basic issue at the core of autoethnography. Rather than accepting a decontextualized and affective conception of happiness, we need to understand happiness as inextricably tied to narrative and moral judgments about the goodness of a whole life. The narratives we make in autoethnography ought to invite and encourage a responsiveness to the other and a responsibility for the other.
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Råholm, Maj-Britt. "Uncovering the Ethics of Suffering Using a Narrative Approach." Nursing Ethics 15, no. 1 (January 2008): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733007083935.

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The purpose of this article is to portray the ethics of suffering based on the published literature. Narrative use has become common in the fields of nursing education and curriculum development and in the determination of practice competencies. Understanding the ethics of suffering implies a hermeneutic movement between alienation and dedication. To understand the ethical significance of human suffering, the scene of suffering is described through the concepts of: to endure, to struggle, to sacrifice life and health, and to become. To respond, to discover, to approach, to touch and to shape patients' different patterns of life implies responsibility: to see, to affirm their dignity by being, and to express this in ethical words. Narration plays a crucial role in transforming suffering, that is, reformulating patients' stories. It is vital that educators should create a learning environment where students can find the courage and intention to be present and listen to patients' narratives.
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Laurel, Jane Dominic. "Suffering and the Narrative of Redemption." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 17, no. 3 (2017): 437–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ncbq201717345.

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Loute, Alain. "Identité narrative collective et critique sociale." Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 3, no. 1 (June 25, 2012): 53–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/errs.2012.119.

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For many authors, the transformations of capitalism have had the effect of causing suffering (stress, stigmatization, disaffiliation, etc..) whose social dimension is not recognized. For Emmanuel Renault, theoretical critique can analyze these new sufferings and become a "spokesman" giving voice to suffering beings. In this article, the author proposes to problematize this form of critical intervention, building on Paul Ricœur's reflections on the issue of the dispossession of the actors’ power to recount their actions themselves. If Renault’s intervention makes sense in relation to the ideologization of narrative identity, it remains unsatisfactory against “internal” resistances to the emplotment of the self. Ricœur’s analysis of the analytic experience teaches us that these resistances cannot be lifted through mere intellectual understanding and that the narrative restructuration of the personality must sometimes take the form of real work.
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Ramanathan-Abbott, Vai. "Interactional differences in Alzheimer's discourse: An examination of AD speech across two audiences." Language in Society 23, no. 1 (March 1994): 31–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500017668.

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ABSTRACTAssessments of the narrative abilities of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease should consider the interactions that generate the narratives. By analyzing the discourse of an AD patient in interaction with two different interlocutors, namely her husband and the author, this study calls attention to ways in which one interaction facilitates narratives and the other does not. Previous psycholinguistic research, largely focusing on the resultant narrative, has understood the AD patient's deteriorating narrative skills as a result of the progressively debilitating nature of the disease. This is undoubtedly true, but extensive and meaningful talk is nevertheless possible, partially grounded in and constructed through social interaction. (Discourse analysis, Alzheimer's disease, narrative social interaction)
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Rodness, Roshaya. "Embodying suffering: the autobiographical pain narrative." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104760.

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This study offers an analysis of the representation of chronic and episodic pain in narrative life-writing. I have surveyed six contemporary memoirs that are each concerned with the author's chronic pain experience. In the field of pain studies – both in the humanities and medical sciences – the adequacy of language to represent pain is a vexed issue. Many assert that pain is difficult to represent in language because, in part, we fail to experience it as a meaningful event. Narrative is the most common mode of communication with which we express events that happened in the past; it thus offers writers ways to represent their pain in the same respect, with the same effects, as other less problematic past happenings. In pain studies there is rarely a distinction made between the varying representability of acute pain (temporary) and chronic or episodic pain (long term), when in fact each form affects a life in radically different ways. Chronic or episodic pain implies a temporal element and will become a fixture in an individual's long-term experiences. As a mode that encodes change over time in space, narrative is ideal for the representation of both chronic and episodic pain. In this study I have isolated three types of autobiographical pain narratives that exhibit different ways chronic pain is represented. Chapter one describes the "triangulation of pain," in which narrators talk about their own pain obliquely by referring to the pain of others. Chapter two looks at the "translation of pain," in which narrators try to describe their pain as directly as possible. Chapter three observes the journey or quest pattern found in pain narratives that tend to focus on the pursuit of cures. Although pain can be difficult to articulate, there are a diversity of narrative methods that give it self-determined meaning that works to supersede the limitations we face when trying to come to terms with such an inexorable and interior phenomenon.
Cette étude présente une analyse de la représentation de la douleur chronique et épisodique dans les récits de vie en mode narratif. J'ai compulsé six ouvrages contemporains de mémoires, chacun s'intéressant à l'expérience de douleur chronique de l'auteur. Dans le domaine de l'étude de la douleur – en sciences humaines et médicales –, la capacité de la langue à représenter la douleur est un enjeu controversé. Plusieurs affirment que la douleur est difficile à transmettre par le langage parce que, d'une part, nous échouons à en faire l'expérience en tant qu'événement significatif. La narration est le mode de communication le plus courant par lequel nous exprimons des événements qui se sont produits dans le passé; elle offre par conséquent aux écrivains des moyens de représenter leur douleur de la même manière et avec les mêmes effets que lorsqu'ils relatent des événements passés moins problématiques. Les études sur la douleur font rarement une distinction entre la représentabilité variable de la douleur aiguë (temporaire) et celle de la douleur chronique et épisodique (à long terme), alors que, dans les faits, chaque forme influence la vie de manières radicalement différentes. La douleur chronique ou épisodique est accompagnée d'un élément temporel et deviendra un repère parmi les expériences à long terme d'une personne. En tant que mode qui marque l'évolution dans le temps et l'espace, la narration est idéale pour représenter la douleur chronique et épisodique. Pour réaliser cette étude, j'ai isolé trois types de récits narratifs autobiographiques traitant de la douleur, ces récits présentant différentes façons utilisées pour exprimer la douleur. Le Chapitre I décrit la « triangulation de la douleur » grâce à laquelle les narrateurs parlent indirectement de leur propre douleur en faisant référence à celle de tiers. Le Chapitre II examine la « traduction de la douleur » grâce à laquelle les narrateurs décrivent leur douleur le plus directement possible. Le Chapitre III observe le cheminement ou le modèle de quête découverts dans des récits sur la douleur qui tendent à se concentrer sur la recherche de traitements. Même s'il peut être difficile d'exprimer la douleur, il existe une diversité de méthodes narratives qui lui donnent une signification autodéterminée qui contribue à faire tomber les limites auxquelles nous sommes confrontés quand nous essayons d'assumer un phénomène aussi inexorable et intérieur.
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Campbell, Ellen Catherine. "TRAUMATIZED WIVES AND THE TRANSATLANTIC NOVEL: UNVEILING THE CULTURAL NARRATIVE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MARITAL SUFFERING." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1536.

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My dissertation charts the transatlantic nineteenth-century novel's subtle revisions to the traditional marriage plot, in terms of both narrative and form, identifying a gradual shift in the way marriage was fictionalized. I argue that incremental revisions to the marriage plot reconstruct positive representations of female marital experience into negative depictions that transform marriage into a form of institutionalization that leads to psychological and bodily trauma. I reveal the development of a collective trauma narrative that underscores the nineteenth-century woman's experience living inside society's oppressive marital culture. The novel serves as the body of cultural work that both represents and shapes women's marital experiences inside a society that legally forced them to surrender their identity, person, and property to their husband, as well as socially holding them to a much higher standard of propriety and obedience. In specific chapters, I create transatlantic pairings that trace the novel's troubled efforts to free itself and its heroines from the constraints of the marriage plot which reflect women's inability to do so in real life.
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Caddick, Nicholas D. "A narrative study of the lives of "Combat Surfers" : suffering and surfing in the aftermath of war." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16569.

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In this PhD thesis, the lives and experiences of a group of combat veterans who began surfing following their return from war are explored. Having encountered life changing traumatic events and experienced much suffering (with many becoming diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder), these veterans joined an ex-services charity called Surf Action where they were introduced to surfing alongside other veterans who shared their suffering. The purpose of this research is to explore the effects of surfing and, more broadly, of participation in the charity Surf Action in the veterans lives and on their well-being. It is the first in-depth qualitative investigation of surfing in the lives of combat veterans. Using a combination of life history interviews and participant observation, I collected and analysed stories from the veterans about their lived experiences. Through rigorously applying the innovative analytical approach of dialogical narrative analysis (Frank, 2010, 2012), also inspired by phenomenology, the effects of the veterans stories both on and for their lives and well-being are examined. The analysis first demonstrates that stories of surfing were focused on the veterans physical and sensory interactions with the ocean environment, and helped to cultivate the notion of embodied respite from suffering. It is then suggested that by telling and enacting a collective story, the veterans at Surf Action (the Combat Surfers ) created a therapeutic community through which they accessed mutual support, recreated positive military identities associated with camaraderie, and legitimised their struggles with PTSD. Next, the masculine performances which shaped the veterans actions and narratives around help-seeking and dealing with PTSD are highlighted. Furthermore, the analysis reveals the meanings associated with moving beyond the chaotic influence of trauma in the veterans lives and suggests ways of keeping well following trauma and PTSD. The thesis also incorporates an ethnographic creative non-fiction as a way of enhancing knowledge translation and facilitating wider impact and dissemination of the findings. Finally, the thesis concludes with empirical, theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of the research, with an emphasis throughout on what to the study adds to knowledge. The potential of surfing to contribute to veterans healthcare is discussed alongside recommendations for the charity Surf Action and future possibilities for expanding this research.
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Lockler, Tori Chambers. "The Meaning of Stories Without Meaning: A Post-Holocaust Experiment." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5729.

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Dissonance exists in efforts to communicate about suffering and despair. Showcasing common societal flawed reactions to despair begs for discourse to create a more communicatively healthy response. Attempting to communicate the suffering of others and feeling like I was failing at that goal led to my own suffering. Using writing as a method of personal healing created an intersection of personal narratives of suffering and victim’s narratives (which can arguable only allow for the co-opting of the story and narcissism). Grappling with the limits of writing to heal provided a lens to see the victim’s narratives in such a way that created self-reflexivity. Rather than equating the suffering of the victim’s to my own, which I absolutely do not do, instead I found potential answers to despair in the post-Holocaust theologians. This dissertation is an experiment in trying to communicate suffering and meaning in a post-Holocaust world where my story and the survivors stories both have similarities of theological despair, an ethic of defiance, and most certainly a refusal to be changed by the world.
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Lee, Jessica Nalani Oi Jun. "Too Much Information: Agency and Disruptions of Power in Personal Narratives of Mental Illness and Suffering." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/323465.

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Healing in the mental health system of the 21st century is difficult as the credibility of mental health users is constantly called into question, their experiences and perceptions of their "illness" undervalued or even completely ignored. This attitude towards mental health users must be changed in order to work towards truly alleviating mental illness and suffering. Careful analysis of the rhetoric of published personal narratives written by women describing their experiences with mental healthcare reveals the ways in which medical knowledge is created, owned, and disseminated only by the “authoritative expert,” defined as healthcare professionals who categorize, taxonomize, and pathologize in order to treat both physical and mental illness. I argue the authoritative expert marginalizes the "everyday expert," exemplified through the perceptions of women who, in their narratives, record realities that do not always match the diagnoses and prognoses assigned to them by their healthcare providers. My project's central question asks: In what ways do personal narratives of mental illness and suffering illuminate the ways in which language constructs reality? My research illuminates the ways in which narratives of mental illness and suffering are healing, and thus serves as an advocate for patient rights, both by empowering patients and by furthering discussion among medical professionals regarding problematizing "standard" treatment. My work advances the connection between politics and language as it takes a commonly undervalued form of language and lived experience--narrative--and researches the ways in which it has been and can continue to be used as a powerful political agent to empower mental health users by giving them a voice. Specifically, I demonstrate how patients' personal experiences should and can be valued as a way to illuminate their own understanding of their disease as well as to inform their treatment. This project lays the foundation for future research examining ways treatment for mental illness should be differentiated from treatment for physical illness. I am interested in ways to further combat the stigma of mental illness by looking at ways providers can honor and respect the opinions and values of mental health patients in non-pejorative ways.
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Lim, Kar-Yong. ""The sufferings of Christ are abundant in us" (2 Cor 1:5) : a narrative dynamics investigation of Paul's sufferings in 2 Corinthians." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683346.

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Jones, Jocelyn. "Thinking with stories of suffering : towards a living theory of response-ability." Thesis, University of Bath, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488897.

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In the thesis I develop a living theory of responsibility, movement, engagement, withdrawal, and self care with a living standard of judgement of response-ability toward the other. I use a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to develop a dynamic, relational understanding, where social constructions are discussed and refined using cycles of loose and strict thinking, an inter-play of emotion and intellect, and a combination of intuitive and analytic reasoning. This is underpinned by an extended epistemology embracing experiential learning, documentary and textual analysis, presentational knowing, dialogue, narrative and photographic inquiry. I address the essence of inquiry with people who have difficult stories to tell and for us to comprehend: narratives which emerge from episodes of chaos and suffering, interspersed with occasional glimpses of the inter-human. Within this context I explore responsibility [response-ability] to ‘the Other’ as subject, and the ethical obligations implied in that relationship. My and others’ narratives, through space and over time, are researched using an extended epistemology and inquiry cycles across two interwoven strands. I look back over a long career and ‘epiphanous’ moments as a social worker and academic in the field of child protection and children and families work; and as the child of a war veteran, I reflect on World War II narratives of suffering, changing identity, and the inter-human. This first and second person inquiry extends outwards through cycles of dialogue with ex European prisoners of war and relation with landscape across Europe and Russia. In these reflections I clarify my meanings of chaos, suffering and responsibility [response-ability]. The learning from this extended inquiry and the contribution to knowledge are reflected on within my current practice as a participative researcher who is expressing response-ability toward the other. Finally, I consider implications for improving practice and organizational climate in children and families work.
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White, Lacie. "'Of All Mindfulness Meditation, That on Death is Supreme': A Dialogical Narrative Analysis with Palliative Care Nurses." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41119.

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“Mindfulness gets thrown around all the time, but what does it actually mean in practice?” I interpreted this question posed by a nurse in this inquiry, as a statement of curiosity and concern. As conceptualizations, practices, and programs of mindfulness continue to diversify, there is a call to understand mindfulness as a socially and culturally embedded practice. Some critiques suggest mindfulness is moving too far from its ethical orientation and becoming instrumentalized as a tool. Therefore, the pervasive presence of ‘mindfulness’ across work and educational settings renders the question what does mindfulness actually mean in practice? an important one for nursing as a discipline, and within palliative care nursing practice. Mindfulness is proposed broadly here as an approach to meet therapeutic and relational aims for nurses within palliative care practice. What it means to be mindfully present and compassionate in the midst of suffering, strong emotion and profound uncertainty is rarely discussed. Grounded in conversations with nine palliative care nurses (their words italicized), I explored how mindfulness shapes relationally engaged ways of being while caring for people with terminal disease and existential distress. Using a contemplative dialogical narrative approach, I analyzed nurses’ stories as units of data to explore multilayered narratives with personal, social, and cultural storylines. Using an emergent and iterative design, I dialogued across various aspects of the research process enacting an integrative approach. Metaphorically, this dissertation is structured as a contemplative walk within a classical seven-circuit labyrinth; readers are invited to walk a circuitous path while following along as stories take the lead. Seven turns in the labyrinth outline a path conveying key recursive narratives of mindfulness. Turning in various directions three guiding story threads are woven together to create the path: 1) palliative care nursing as mindfulness is an embodied ethic creating space(s) for creativity and ‘connection’ through the ‘big stuff’; 2) such ‘space’ can be generated and accessed through somatic practices of ‘self-awareness’ and ‘self-care’; and 3) spaces of caring are continuously transforming within the communities in which they are practiced. Nurses’ stories foreground ways organizational and educational systems support or constrain how mindfulness as an embodied ethic of care can be enacted. This study adds to the ongoing conversation of mindfulness and its value when practiced/understood as palliative care nursing. As the historical Buddha was quoted to have said “of all mindfulness meditation, that on death is supreme.”
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Drottz, Sandra. "Psykiatrisjuksköterskors erfarenheter av vårdande samtal med patienter som har substansmissbruk : En kvalitativ intervjustudie." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för omvårdnad - avancerad nivå, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-16885.

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Bakgrund: Substansmissbruk är ett globalt problem och leder till negativa konsekvenser både för personen och samhället. Antal patienter som vårdats för substansmissbruk inom hälso- och sjukvården i Sverige har ökat de senaste åren. Tidigare forskning visar att substansmissbruk kan grundas i och leda till lidande. Psykiatrisjuksköterskor ger ofta omvårdnad till patienter som har substansmissbruk. Kommunikation mellan psykiatrisjuksköterska och patient sker vanligen via samtal. Forskning har visat att vårdande samtal kan lindra lidande. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att beskriva psykiatrisjuksköterskors erfarenheter av vårdande samtal med patienter som har ett substansmissbruk. Metod: Semistrukturerade narrativa intervjuer via telefon utfördes med elva psykiatrisjuksköterskor. Data analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Analysen mynnade ut i elva subkategorier och fyra kategorier. Kategorierna var drogfrihet som ambition, följsam närvaro, genuin människokärlek och att möta och lindra lidandets olika skepnader. Slutsats: Vårdande samtal kan ha potential att lindra patientens lidande samt tillfrisknande från substansmissbruk. Psykiatrisjuksköterskan behöver ha ett professionellt och personcentrerat förhållningssätt. Det vårdande samtalet beskrivs vara ett samtal mellan två människor vilket för psykiatrisjuksköterskan innebär utmaning i balans mellan närhet och distans till patienten.
Background: Substance abuse is a global problem that leads to negative consequences both for the person and for society. Healthcare in Sweden has the last couple of years taken care ofan increasing number of patients with substance abuse. Research shows that substance abuse can both lead to and caused suffering. Psychiatric nurses often give nursing care to patients who have substance abuse. Communication between the psychiatric nurse and the patient is often done by conversation. Research has shown that caring conversations can alleviate suffering. Aim: The aim of the study was to describe psychiatric nurses’ experiences of caring conversations with patients who have substance abuse. Method: Semi-structured narrative interviews were conducted by phone with eleven psychiatric nurses. Data is analyzed according to qualitative content analysis. Results: The analysis resulted in eleven subcategories and four categories. The categories were drug freedom as ambition, compliant presence, genuine human love and to meet and alleviate the various forms of suffering. Conclusion: Caring conversations can have the potential to alleviate the patient's suffering as well as recovery from substance abuse. The psychiatric nurse needs to have a professional and person-centered approach. The caring conversation is described as a conversation between two people, which for the psychiatric nurse means a challenge in balancing closeness and distance to the patient.
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Nilsson, Christina. "Förlossningsrädsla : med fokus på kvinnors upplevelser av att föda barn." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, HV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-18750.

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Aim: The overall aim of this study is to describe experiences of, and the association between, fear of childbirth and birth experiences of women with fear ofchildbirth. Methods: In studies I, II, and IV, a reflective lifeworld approach based on phenomenological philosophy was used to describe women’s experiences of fear of childbirth (I), previous birth experiences (II), and fear of childbirth and of birth experience in a long-term perspective (IV). In study III, differences between women who reported fear of childbirth and those who did not were calculated using risk ratios with a 95 % confidence interval and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Data were collected from interviews with eight (I) and nine (II) pregnant women with intense fear of childbirth, and with six women who had sought care for intense fear of childbirth 7 to 11 years prior to the interview (IV), and via questionnaire from a sample of 763 women during pregnancy and again one year following birth (III). Findings: Fear of childbirth was described as “to lose oneself as a woman into loneliness” (I). Previous birth experience was described as “a sense of not being present in the delivery room and an incomplete childbirth experience” (II). Fear of childbirth was associated with a previous negative birth experience and a previous emergency caesarean section (III). From a long-term perspective, fear of childbirth and birth experience was described as “an effort to make all the pieces come together” (IV). Conclusions: This thesis generates evidence on the importance of previous birth experience for women with fear of childbirth, from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. These perspectives illustrate the complexity where women´s experiences in the delivery room are central. To avoid creating fear of childbirth, it is important that maternity care services focus on women’s birth experiences and critically evaluate care in relation to childbirth.
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Books on the topic "Narrative of suffering"

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On Suffering: An interdisciplinary dialogue on narrative and suffering. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012.

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Wandering in darkness: Narrative and the problem of suffering. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010.

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Abel, Emily K. Suffering in the land of sunshine: A Los Angeles illness narrative. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

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Face to face: A narrative essay in the theology of suffering. Edinburgh: T.& T. Clark, 1990.

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The suffering self: Pain and narrative representation in early Christian era. London: Routledge, 1995.

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Redeeming the story: Women, suffering, and Christ. New York: Continuum, 2004.

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Jolly, Rosemary Jane. Cultured violence: Narrative, social suffering, and engendering human rights in contemporary South Africa. Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2010.

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T, Groce John, and Harmon Charles E, eds. From zero to eighty: Two African American men's narrative of racism, suffering, survival, and transformation. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2011.

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"The sufferings of Christ are abundant in us" (2 Corinthians 1:5): A narrative-dynamics investigation of Paul's sufferings in 2 Corinthians. London: T & T Clark International, 2009.

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Smith, Aaron. The atrocities of the pirates: A faithful narrative of the unparalleled suffering of the author during his captivity among the pirates. New York, NY: Skyhorse Pub., 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Narrative of suffering"

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Tuch, Richard, and J. Mark Thompson. "Storying suffering of every conceivable sort." In Narrative and Meaning, 165–89. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315205212-7.

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Benaroyo, Lazare. "Suffering, Time, Narrative, and the Self." In Personhood and Health Care, 373–81. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2572-9_31.

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Anderson, Ronald E. "Narrative Accounts of the Agony of Suffering." In SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research, 17–28. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7669-2_2.

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Frie, Roger. "Shaping Prejudice? Holocaust Remembrance and the Narrative of German Suffering." In Fomenting Political Violence, 103–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97505-4_6.

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Painter, Rebecca M. "Too Much Happiness, Too Much Suffering … Never Enough Reality through Narrative." In Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life, 283–97. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0773-3_21.

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Hakosalo, Heini. "The Ill(s) of the Nation: The Experience of Tuberculosis in Finland from the 1920s to the 1970s." In Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience, 241–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69882-9_10.

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AbstractHeini Hakosalo makes use of an extensive collection of written, unpublished tuberculosis-related illness narratives to analyze the experience of tuberculosis and tuberculosis sanatoria “from below” within the context of twentieth-century Finland. Hakosalo argues that by linking their personal illness histories to national history, the authors could give a sense of purpose and meaning to their personal losses and suffering. At the same time, their testimonies stood as a contribution, however modest, to the national knowledge-community. She distinguishes three narrative strands that allowed the authors to assimilate their personal illness with the collective ills of the nation: histories of tuberculosis as stories of progress, stories of war, and stories of belonging.
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Ting, Rachel Sing-Kiat, and Louise Sundararajan. "Narratives of Suffering." In Culture, Cognition, and Emotion in China's Religious Ethnic Minorities, 41–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66059-2_2.

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Alm, Erika. "A State Affair?: Notions of the State in Discourses on Trans Rights in Sweden." In Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality, 209–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47432-4_8.

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Abstract Departing from previous scholarly work that has studied the effects of state violence and conditional state recognition on the living conditions of gender-variant people (Beauchamp 2019; Linander 2018), this chapter explores the function of narratives of the state in discourses on trans rights in Sweden. It provides insights into the relation between state and civil society, and the practicalities of governance, through an examination of how activists interpellate the state and hold it accountable. With a critical inquiry into the hegemonic narrative that the Swedish state has a responsibility to alleviate the suffering of gender-variant citizens as a background, it addresses and situates the tension between liberal rights discourses of trans rights on the one hand and transformative politics asking for restorative justice on the other hand (Spade 2011). The argument is that the interpellation of the state can be understood as a strategy to repoliticise the violent effects of governance in times of neoliberalism.
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Bhadury, Poushali. "“There is no such thing as a straight woman”: Queer female representations in South Asian graphic narratives." In “Suffering Sappho!”, 96–106. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003146322-8.

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Spittler, Janet E. "Suffering Thomas:." In The Narrative Self in Early Christianity, 211–28. SBL Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpr7r5n.16.

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