Dissertations / Theses: 'Narrative of suffering'

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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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Teixeira, Angela Maria. "Vida revirada: o acontecer humano diante da defici?ncia adquirida na fase adulta." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2006. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/160.

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Considering that the acquired deficiency in the adult phase modifies the personal life radically and dramatically, we investigated the existence of two paraplegia bearers, with more than two years of wheel chair. From a clinical-qualitative perspective, we centered the methodological strategies in the use of the "prose" and of "chatting" become pregnant as a slow conversation where the "cases" of the life are told laggingly, in a movement of appropriation of the culture the state of Minas Gerais Brazil. Recording of conversations were heard several time, consenting a subsequent elaboration of the "proses" under the form of narratives that could be analyzed in agreement with Campos Psychoanalytic Theory. We verified that the interviewees suffering pronounces primordialment starting from three fields live that we denominated of maternity, negation of the sexuality and premature retirement, that causes chronic emotional suffering.
Considerando que a defici?ncia adquirida na fase adulta modifica a vida pessoal radical e dramaticamente, investigamos a viv?ncia de dois portadores de paraplegia com mais de dois anos de cadeira de rodas. A partir de uma perspectiva cl?nico-qualitativa, centramos as estrat?gias metodol?gicas no uso da prosa e do prosear , concebidos como uma conversa demorada, na qual os causos da vida s?o relatados vagarosamente, num movimento de apropria??o da cultura mineira. Grava??es de conversas foram ouvidas v?rias vezes, permitindo uma elabora??o posterior das prosas sob a forma de narrativas, que puderam ser analisadas de acordo com a Teoria Psicanal?tica dos Campos. Constatamos que o sofrimento dos entrevistados articula-se primordialmente a partir de tr?s campos vivenciais, que denominamos de maternaliza??o, nega??o da sexualidade e aposentadoria precoce.

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Gregory, David Michael. "Narratives of suffering in the cancer experience." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186965.

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Suffering is a fundamental experience of the human condition. Whereas the arts and humanities have struggled to make sense of this condition, no concerted effort has taken place in nursing. Suffering is painfully absent within the cancer nursing research literature, a place where suffering should be conspicuous. The purpose of this study was to explore suffering inherent in the cancer experience. The concurrent use of Travelbee's Human-To-Human Relationship Model and narrative theory provided the conceptual underpinning for this prospective ethnography. Narratives of suffering were explored among seven patients diagnosed with cancer (breast, n = 4; brain; malignant melanoma; and ovarian cancer). Five women and two men were interviewed weekly (N = 89 interviews) for a period of up to five months. Participant observation supplemented the interview data. Seven richly textured narratives revealed the suffering endured in the living-of-cancer. The narratives also detailed the informant as person, the cancer trajectory, and explanatory models of cancer causation. A second level analysis of the narratives provided an intra-group comparison of suffering. "Cascade of losses" was the overarching theme. The undermining of personhood, and a loss of faith and trust in the medical system characterized this cascade of losses. Losses were further encountered: the dismissal of symptoms presented to physicians, the failure of treatment as cure, the death of other cancer patients, and the false reassurance that "cancer can be beaten". The remaining themes were "cancer as torture" and "the work of suffering--the beauty of cancer". The findings of this study suggest that nurses may not be capable of alleviating patient suffering. Patients' lives intersect at the suffering experience; their suffering is shaped by the past, present, and future. Nurses may influence these intersections of suffering to some extent, however, it is the individual who ultimately determines the living and outcome (if any) of their suffering. In the lives of the informants, it was the love of spouses and children, faith and trust in God, and satisfaction with life's accomplishments which permitted the endurance of suffering. Competent, comfort-care provided by compassionate nurses is needed by patients who suffer with cancer.

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Hart, M. J. Alexandra. "Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294.

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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science. The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do. Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process. It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact. The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail. A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported. It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact. On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment. The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency. Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches. Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.

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CÃmara, Yzy Maria Rabelo. "PercepÃÃo, vivÃncia e enfrentamento do sofrimento psÃquico em crianÃa usuÃrias de CAPS Infantil." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2011. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6134.

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Esta pesquisa visou Ã compreensÃo da percepÃÃo, vivÃncia e enfrentamento de crianÃas portadoras de sofrimento psÃquico usuÃrias do Centro de AtenÃÃo Psicossocial Infantil (CAPSi) Maria Ileuda VerÃosa. O sofrimento psÃquico foi analisado Ã luz da teoria Winnicottiana, atravÃs da teoria do amadurecimento humano, onde foi discutida a importÃncia do suporte familiar e do meio saudÃvel para um desenvolvimento emocional que tenda Ã integraÃÃo do indivÃduo, sendo o sofrimento psÃquico da crianÃa gerado pela falha desta estrutura.Os sujeitos foram dez crianÃas de 7 a 11 anos. Foi feito um levantamento de dados com as respectivas cuidadoras apenas como uma maneira de complementaÃÃo das informaÃÃes coletadas. O local escolhido corresponde ao primeiro CAPS infantil do estado do CearÃ e atende ao pÃblico infanto-juvenil de 67 bairros do municÃpio de Fortaleza. Para tanto, foi feito um levantamento documental dos prontuÃrios e das anotaÃÃes dos diÃrios de campo, assim como entrevistas semi-estruturadas com as crianÃas colaboradoras e suas cuidadoras, no perÃodo de agosto a dezembro de 2010. Os resultados encontrados apontam para a propriedade que as crianÃas tÃm de reconhecer e expressar suas formas diversas de vivenciarem o sofrimento psÃquico: agressividade, mudanÃas de humor, queixas de ansiedade, dificuldades escolares, dificuldade de aceitaÃÃo da realidade, estigma, violÃncia domÃstica e sexual. Por fim, a relevÃncia deste trabalho encontra-se na compreensÃo do sofrimento psÃquico pela Ãtica de quem o vivencia e na contribuiÃÃo para com pesquisas futuras, pois hÃ na literatura pouco material sobre o sofrimento psÃquico da crianÃa respeitando o discurso da mesma. A importÃncia tambÃm Ã dada como um conhecimento que pode facilitar a reorientaÃÃo de melhores prÃticas profissionais e de polÃticas pÃblicas voltadas para a saÃde mental infantil.
This research aimed at the understanding of the perception, existence and confrontation of children bearing psychological suffering, who attend the Centro de AtenÃÃo Psicossocial Infantil (CAPSi) Maria Ileuda VerÃosa. The psychological suffering was analyzed based on Winnicottâs theory, through the theory of human development, where the importance of the familiar support and the healthy environment was discussed, towards an emotional development which leads to the individualâs integration; being the childâs psychological suffering produced by a failure of this structure. There were 10 subjects who were children from seven up to eleven years old. A data survey was made with their respective caretakers only as a means by which to supply the collected information. The chosen place corresponds to the first CAPS Infantil do Estado do CearÃ and attends children and adolescents of 67 districts of Fortaleza county. This way, a documental survey of the medical records and the notes of the area diaries was made, as well as semi-structured interviews with the collaborator children and their caretakers from August to December, in 2010. The results which were found point to the property that children have to recognize and express their several ways to experience psychological suffering: aggressiveness, changes of humor, complaints about anxiety, school difficulties, difficulty for accepting reality, stigma, domestic and sexual violence. Finally, the relevance of this work lies on the understanding of the psychological suffering through the view of those who experience it and the contribution this research paper may give to further investigation, since there is not so much literature on childrenâs psychological suffering respecting their own discourse. Its importance is also given as a piece of knowledge that can facilitate the reorientation of the best professional practices and public policy towards childish mental health

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Galvão, Michelle Prata. "Notas sobre o herói contemporâneo e os limites do discurso terapêutico." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2015. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6021.

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The following research emerged out of the remark that the main characters from major success TV shows for the last decade are – at first sight – quite unlike from what we usually comprehend as television’s “good guys”. They are contemporary beings frequently portrayed as complicated, unhappy and morally wrong. This description strongly separates them from attributes normally connected to the word “hero”: greatness, honour, strength, character, wisdom, dexterity, value, leadership. On behalf of understanding the possibility of the emergence and the popularization of this profile, and also to investigate if truly exists something distinguishing those from ulterior heroes, the hero’s trace was sought into humanity’s history, since its birth as a myth until its present consolidation. For the purpose of limning this profile, the current paper presents the analysis of two contemporary characters, videlicet, Tony Soprano, from The Sopranos, and Walter White, from Breaking Bad. At last, these analyses are articulated within the therapeutic discourse supported by suffering’s narrative. Considering the socio-historical conditions which allowed therapeutics’ discourse appearance and consolidation, as well as elements pointing at its ‘exhaustion’ while (being) a privileged subjectification discourse.
A pesquisa em questão surgiu a partir da observação que o perfil dos protagonistas de séries televisivas de grande sucesso na última década é, à primeira vista, bastante distinto daquele que comumente associamos aos mocinhos da TV. São personagens contemporâneos descritos com frequência como complicados, infelizes e moralmente incorretos. Descrição que os distancia fortemente dos atributos comumente associados à palavra herói: grandeza, honra, força, caráter, sabedoria, destreza, valor, liderança. Com o intuito de compreender a possibilidade de emergência e de popularização desse novo perfil, além de averiguar se realmente há algo que distingue o dos heróis anteriores buscou-se traçar a trajetória do herói na história da humanidade, desde seu nascimento com o mito até sua atual consolidação. A fim de ilustrar o perfil de herói em questão, o trabalho apresenta análises de dois personagens contemporâneos que o materializam, a saber, Tony Soprano de Família Soprano e Walter White de Breaking Bad. Finalmente, essas análises são articuladas ao discurso terapêutico, fundado na narrativa do sofrimento. Considerando as condições sócio históricas que possibilitaram o surgimento e a consolidação do discurso terapêutico, bem como elementos que apontam para um certo esgotamento do mesmo, enquanto um discurso de subjetivação privilegiado.

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Wells, Jessica. "The Suffering South: 1878 Yellow Fever Narratives and Post-Reconstruction Southern Identity." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7106.

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The Suffering South offers a cultural history of a yellow fever epidemic that swept through the Mississippi Valley in 1878. It argues that the yellow fever narratives created during this epidemic constituted a discursive attempt by Southerners to renegotiate Southern identity and social hierarchy following the Civil War and Reconstruction. White Southerners, in particular, used the epidemic as an occasion to foster a return to a more traditional foundation of white supremacy and patriarchy as the basis for Southern identity and belonging. The narratives written by these Southerners, in which they described their experiences with yellow fever and the effects of its epidemic ravages, thereby illustrate an explicit attempt to culturally redeem the South following the successful political Redemption of the region. Using themes and stock characterizations of heroes and villains that would have been readily familiar to a generation of Southerners who had lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, these narratives presented the idealized Southerner as white and male. In turn, they castigated non-native outsiders, racial and ethnic minorities, and women who went outside of the prescribed social norms of their race, class, or gender. These narratives also acted to justify the racial disparity in the distribution of the relief generated by the national humanitarian response to the epidemic’s incredible scope and severity. In doing so, Democratic Redeemers directed money, medical attention, and rations away from African American communities in the South as evidence of their belief that these Southerners did not deserve equal access to aid as a right of citizenship. Finally, the memory of the epidemic continues to rely on these traditional primary sources which present the experience of yellow fever in 1878 through the written memories of white Southerners. The efforts to solidify the patriarchal, white-supremacist basis for Southern identity and belonging implicit in these sources continues to effect the historical narrative presented in commemorations and official histories. Yellow fever can be understood, then, not only as a physiological disease, but as a cultural construction encompassing a set of ideas that helped to maintain hierarchies of belonging and identity in the South. This dissertation thus follows in the steps of historians who have studied epidemics and other natural disasters to illuminate social and cultural hierarchies of power. It likewise examines how relief and public health efforts reinforced those hierarchies in the epidemic’s immediate aftermath and builds on the work of memory scholars to illustrate how the collective memory of the event continues to either reinforce or challenge those hierarchies over time.

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Johansson, Anna. "La mujer sufrida, the suffering woman : narratives on feminity among women in a Nicaraguan "barrio /." Göteborg : Göteborg University, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37042119b.

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Antunes, Sofia Martins Peres. "Quando tudo nos é estranho para onde vamos? A inserção de imigrantes portugueses no movimento associativo português da cidade de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47134/tde-10112017-152144/.

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Esta dissertação é uma pesquisa qualitativa em Psicologia Social. Seu objetivo concentrou-se em investigar se a inserção de imigrantes portugueses, em espaços associativos lusitanos da cidade de São Paulo, pode ser visto como uma tentativa destes de resistirem aos processos de desenraizamento, ocasionados pela ruptura proveniente do ato de emigrar de seu país de origem. O método escolhido pautou-se na análise das histórias de vida transmitidas pelas narrativas orais. Desse modo, embarcamos nas vicissitudes da vida de seis portugueses, nascidos nas décadas de 1920 e 1930 e percorremos três tempos de suas biografias: tempos da infância, período de mudança e, por último, a vida no Brasil. O conceito de enraizamento e de desenraizamento, que rege o aporte teórico da pesquisa, foi extraído da obra da filósofa francesa Simone Weil, difundida no Brasil pela psicóloga social Éclea Bosi. Ademais, ao longo desta dissertação, dialogamos com estudiosos de diversos campos de conhecimento, como sociólogos, historiadores, filósofos e psicólogos, a fim de refletir a respeito da hipótese desta pesquisa, a saber se a participação em uma organização coletiva pode ser considerada um ponto favorável para que o sofrimento da ruptura biográfica não esfacele a memória do passado, preservando os vínculos e as lembranças destes portugueses. Por fim, apontamos que estas organizações foram criadas e mantidas como formas de enfrentar o sofrimento psicossocial gerado pela emigração. Constatamos que a inserção dos seis idosos portugueses nas entidades estudadas foi considerada como um movimento de ir ao encontro do familiar. Concluímos que, ao articular nesses espaços experiências do passado que os impulsionaram para o futuro, provendo ancoramento por meio do respaldo identitário, cultural e memorialístico, estes tiveram, novamente, a oportunidade se re-enraizar
This master thesis is a qualitative research in Social Psychology. Its aim was to investigate whether the insertion of portuguese immigrants into lusitanian associative spaces in the city of São Paulo can be seen as an attempt by these to resist the uprooting processes caused by the rupture resulting from the emigration of their country of origin. The method chosen was based on the analysis of the life histories transmitted by the oral narratives. In this way, we embark on the vicissitudes of the life of six portuguese, born in the 1920s and 1930s and go through three times of their biographies: childhood times, the period of change and, finally, life in Brazil. The concept of rooting and rootlessness, which governs the theoretical contribution of the research, was extracted from the work of the french philosopher Simone Weil, spread in Brazil by the social psychologist Éclea Bosi. Furthermore, throughout this dissertation, we have dialogues with researchers from different fields of knowledge, such as sociologists, historians, philosophers and psychologists, in order to reflect on the hypothesis of this research, to know if the participation in a collective organization can be considered a favorable point for what the suffering of the biographical rupture does not exclude the memory of the past, preserving the ties and the memories of these portuguese. Finally, we point out that these organizations were created and maintained as ways of facing the psychosocial suffering generated by emigration. We found that the inclusion of the six Portuguese elderly in the studied entities was considered as a movement to meet the familiar. We conclude that by articulating in these spaces past experiences that propelled them into the future, providing anchoring through the support of identity, culture and memorialism, they again had the opportunity to re-rooted

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SOUZA, RAQUEL FREIRE DE. "I LL START ON MONDAY: THE CYCLIC STRUCTURE OF DIETING NARRATIVES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUFFERING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34799@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
As histórias sobre dieta parecem circular habitualmente em nossa sociedade, sendo associadas principalmente aos sentimentos de culpa, frustação e insatisfação. Partindo desse quadro, a presente pesquisa se propõe a investigar a construção do sofrimento em narrativas sobre dieta através de entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com universitárias que estavam sob assistência dietoterápica de nutricionista. Busca-se compreender como os discursos sobre alimentação, corpo e saúde atuam na história de vida das mulheres que fazem dieta e como eles são significados através de suas narrativas. Assim, adota-se a perspectiva SocioInteracional e a Análise de Narrativa que estão situadas no paradigma qualitativo e interpretativista da pesquisa. A análise parte da situação microssocial, especificamente narrativas coconstruídas durante a entrevista, por entender que ela é um espaço de construção, contestação e negociação dos significados que transitam no âmbito macrossocial. Os resultados apontam as estratégias narrativas utilizadas pelas entrevistadas para se afastar de estigmas de cunho físico e psicológico. Nota-se também o caráter cíclico dessas narrativas, relacionando o processo de fazer dieta a um percurso sem fim que busca atender expectativas construídas individual e socialmente sobre alimentação, corpo e saúde. Essas narrativas cíclicas moldam o sentimento de aprisionamento causado pelo controle rigoroso da alimentação, construindo a ideia do sofrimento. Por fim, esta dissertação abre espaço para um debate crítico e multidisciplinar, visto que as práticas disciplinadoras do corpo e da alimentação têm culminado em constrangimentos para a expressão do eu.
The stories about dieting seem to ordinarily circulate in our society and they are mainly tied to feelings of guilt, frustration and dissatisfaction. Based on this context, this research aims to investigate the construction of suffering in dieting narratives through semi-structured interviews conducted with university students who were under dietary assistance with a nutritionist. It seeks to understand how the discourses about eating, body and health act on the life stories of women who go on a diet and how they are made significant through their narratives. The SocioInteractionist perspective and the Narrative Analysis, which are located in the qualitative and interpretative research paradigm, are used as theoretical framework. The analysis starts from the microssocial situation, specifically narratives coconstructed during the interview, since it is a space of construction, contestation and negotiation of the meanings that go through the macrossocial sphere. The results show the narrative strategies used by interviewees to move away from physical and psychological stigmas. It also points out the cyclical structure of these narratives, relating the process of dieting to an endless journey that seeks to meet expectations about eating habits, body and health, built both individually and socially. These cyclic narratives shape the sense of imprisonment caused by the rigorous control of eating, constructing the idea of suffering. Finally, this dissertation opens space for a critical and multidisciplinary discussion, since disciplinary practices of the body and eating have been resulting on embarrassments to self-expression.

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Vieira, Suzane de Alencar. "O drama azul = narrativas sobre o sofrimento das vitimas do evento radiologico do Cesio-137." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279038.

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Orientador: Maria Suely Kofes
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa apresenta uma abordagem dramática sobre o evento radiológico do Césio-137. O evento, desencadeado na cidade de Goiânia no ano 1987, não se encerra com o fim da contaminação radiológica e se estende a um processo judicial, médico-científico e narrativo de identificação e reconhecimento de novas vítimas. A produção da etnografia é acompanhada por um exercício de experimentação teórico-conceitual em torno das noções de drama e evento. Para compreender os processos pelos quais o evento é configurado como um drama, analiso narrativas como romances, artes plásticas, fotografias, jornais, documentários, filmes, bibliografia acadêmica e relatos provocados pela pesquisa de campo. As narrativas politizam o discurso de vitimização e a experiência de sofrimento. A forma dramática de narrativas e símbolos canaliza emoções e promove o engajamento emocional dos sujeitos no processo. Além de agenciar a relação entre narrativa e evento, o drama revelou-se como um espaço político que instrumentaliza o modelo narrativo e a linguagem do sofrimento para incitar o reconhecimento das vítimas. O drama ocupa um lugar central na dinâmica do evento radiológico ao estender seus limites, modular sua intensidade e atualizá-lo a cada nova narrativa. A etnografia, enquanto uma narrativa sobre o evento, incorpora e atualiza o drama como marco da análise e da descrição do tema e é também absorvida no processo dramático.
Resumo: Esta pesquisa apresenta uma abordagem dramática sobre o evento radiológico do Césio-137. O evento, desencadeado na cidade de Goiânia no ano 1987, não se encerra com o fim da contaminação radiológica e se estende a um processo judicial, médico-científico e narrativo de identificação e reconhecimento de novas vítimas. A produção da etnografia é acompanhada por um exercício de experimentação teórico-conceitual em torno das noções de drama e evento. Para compreender os processos pelos quais o evento é configurado como um drama, analiso narrativas como romances, artes plásticas, fotografias, jornais, documentários, filmes, bibliografia acadêmica e relatos provocados pela pesquisa de campo. As narrativas politizam o discurso de vitimização e a experiência de sofrimento. A forma dramática de narrativas e símbolos canaliza emoções e promove o engajamento emocional dos sujeitos no processo. Além de agenciar a relação entre narrativa e evento, o drama revelou-se como um espaço político que instrumentaliza o modelo narrativo e a linguagem do sofrimento para incitar o reconhecimento das vítimas. O drama ocupa um lugar central na dinâmica do evento radiológico ao estender seus limites, modular sua intensidade e atualizá-lo a cada nova narrativa. A etnografia, enquanto uma narrativa sobre o evento, incorpora e atualiza o drama como marco da análise e da descrição do tema e é também absorvida no processo dramático
Abstract: This research presents a dramatic approach to the Cesium-137 Radiological Event. The event, which started on Goiania in 1987, did not stop with the end of radiological contamination and continues in a judicial, scientific and narrative process of identification and recognition of new victims. The ethnography's output follows a theoretical experiment with the notions of drama and event. In order to better understand the pattern of this event, I analyzed narratives such as romances, arts, photographs, news, documentaries, films, academic bibliography and stories that emerged from the research field. I argue that the narratives politicize the discourses of victimization and the suffering experience. The dramatic form of narratives and symbols concentrates on emotions and promotes the emotional commitment of the subjects on the trial. The drama articulates the relationship between the narratives and the event and creates a tactful space that arouses the recognition of victims through the narrative form and the suffering language. The drama occupies a central place on the dynamics of radiological event, as it extends its limits, inflects its intensity and updates the event. As a narrative of the event, the ethnography incorporates and brings up to date the drama as an analysis landmark and the description of the theme as it is absorbed by a dramatic process.
Abstract: This research presents a dramatic approach to the Cesium-137 Radiological Event. The event, which started on Goiania in 1987, did not stop with the end of radiological contamination and continues in a judicial, scientific and narrative process of identification and recognition of new victims. The ethnography's output follows a theoretical experiment with the notions of drama and event. In order to better understand the pattern of this event, I analyzed narratives such as romances, arts, photographs, news, documentaries, films, academic bibliography and stories that emerged from the research field. I argue that the narratives politicize the discourses of victimization and the suffering experience. The dramatic form of narratives and symbols concentrates on emotions and promotes the emotional commitment of the subjects on the trial. The drama articulates the relationship between the narratives and the event and creates a tactful space that arouses the recognition of victims through the narrative form and the suffering language. The drama occupies a central place on the dynamics of radiological event, as it extends its limits, inflects its intensity and updates the event. As a narrative of the event, the ethnography incorporates and brings up to date the drama as an analysis landmark and the description of the theme as it is absorbed by a dramatic process
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Pinto, Maria Helena. "O significado do sofrimento do paciente oncológico: narrativas dos profissionais de saúde." Universidade de São Paulo, 2003. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22132/tde-26112006-153256/.

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Este estudo teve o propósito de compreender como os profissionais de saúde constroem o significado do sofrimento do paciente oncológico, segundo suas experiências. A investigação foi desenvolvida segundo as propostas da antropologia interpretativa de Clifford Geertz, a antropologia médica de Arthur Kleinman e no conceito de sofrimento de Morse. A amostra constou de doze profissionais, membros da equipe interdisciplinar que atuam com pacientes oncológicos. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semi - estruturadas e de observações participantes, no contexto sociocultural hospitalar. A análise dos dados foi realizada segundo os pressupostos referencial metodológico de narrativas. Com as experiências relatadas pelos informantes foi possível compreender que os significados do sofrimento do paciente oncológico são construídos segundo os sistemas de cuidado cultural profissional e não profissional. O estudo levou a compreensão de que a experiência de sofrimento do paciente pelos profissionais leva a construção de significados comuns, integrados em temas que destacam a empatia, a emoção, o conflito, a individualização dos papéis, as estratégias de intervenção e que estão embasados nos conhecimentos culturais dos profissionais.
The purpose of this study was to understand how health professionals construct the meaning of oncology patients suffering based on their experiences. The research was conducted according to the Clifford Geertz proposal of interpretative anthropology and Arthur Kleinman medical anthropology and Morse?s suffering model. The sample was formed by twelve professionals, members of an interdisciplinary team that work with oncology patients. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observation at a hospital socio-cultural context. Data analysis was performed according to the presuppositions of the narrative method. Based on the experiences of suffering reported by the professionals, the author understood that the meanings of suffering to the oncology patients are constructed according to the professional and non-professional cultural care systems. The author concluded that the experience of suffering results in common meanings, integrated in themes such as empathy, emotion, conflict, role individualization, intervention strategies and that they are based on the professionals? cultural knowledge.

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Moore, Bryan Edward. "Power perfected in weakness narratives of pastors living, coping, and ministering with HIV/AIDS /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Moretti, Christian Gabriele. "Representation and depiction of intimate suffering in the narratives of Esther Tusquets, Elsa Morante and Alberto Asor Rosa." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.595787.

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This thesis examines the concept of intimate suffering in the narratives of Alberto Asor Rosa, Esther Tusquets and Elsa Morante during a historical period marked by the collapse of the Italian and Spanish Fascist regimes. The critical perspectives developed are: the explicit perception of intimate suffering; the process of becoming aware of intimate suffering and the reactions to it; the interaction between physical and psychological suffering; the methods of communicating intimate suffering to a community; the obstacles to perception of intimate suffering and its fictional representation, and W1derstanding and decoding implicit suffering. The thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter One discusses and documents the existing critical scholarship on Tusquets, Asor Rosa and Morante, while it also introduces the central concepts of 'implicit' and 'explicit' suffering, as proposed in this thesis. Chapter Two investigates the representation of 'explicit' suffering in Tusquets' Habiamos ganado la guerra (2007) and Asor Rosa's L 'Alba di un Mondo Nuovo (2002). The aim of this chapter is to examine the way in which the characters become explicitly and unambiguously aware of the unexpressed suffering within their private spheres and develop the means to express it. Furthermore, this section also considers how the autobiographical genre may contribute to depicting and representing' explicit suffering'. Chapter Three elucidates the transitory process of awareness of intimate suffering from the implicit to the explicit stage, taking Tusquets' Con la miel en los labios (1997) and Morante's La Storia ([1974J 1995) as case studies. This chapter studies the intimate mechanisms and processes manifested in the characters. of both works, as a means of gaining awareness about their intimate suffering, on the one hand; while exploring the genre of auto-fiction and its capacity to feature the discourse of representation and the process of awareness of intimate suffering, on the other. Chapter Four continues and develops the concept of 'implicit suffering', investigating the process through 'which the characters of Morante's L'Isola di Arturo ([1957J 1995) and Tusquets' EI amor es un juego solitario (1979) perceive their intimate suffering indirectly, and are unable to recognise it and deal with it. By drawing on the methodology of Medical Humanities, Gender studies, Comparative Literature, Sociology and Psychology, this thesis introduces a new interpretative framework capable of positioning Morante's, Tusquets' and Asor Rosa's works within the cultural and historical trend of recovery of historic memory, and approaches the crucial aspect of the representation of suffering during the totalitarian regimes of Italy and Spain.

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Le, Berre Rozenn. "Le deuil : expérience et réception collective ; De la narrativité à l'accompagnement." Thesis, Lille 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL30035.

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Il s'agit d'étudier la rencontre entre le vécu intime du deuil et sa réception collective. en effet, qu'est-ce que vivre un deuil ? c'est souffrir de la mort d'un être proche et aimé et devoir s'adapter à l'absence, se réorganiser. mais les évolutions possibles d'un deuil sont variées et dépendent largement de facteurs extérieurs. la notion d'attachement dont la perte d'un être cher est la rupture physique laisse subsister une relation vitale d'un genre particulier qui est appelée à évoluer et qui constitue le deuil. le deuil concerne un fait psychologique qui possède sa mécanique et ses enjeux existentiels propres mais il ne nous coupe pas du monde et nous pousse au contraire à aborder autrui de façon différente, nouvelle. cette épreuve qui relève de l'intime, qui bouleverse le moi profond change pourtant notre vision du monde et de ses habitants : la relation moi-autrui change de pôle. mais cette interaction est réciproque : l'autre me regarde et se comporte différemment. la société possède des codes sociaux qui attribuent une place déterminée à chaque membre de la communauté : ainsi, la veuve, le veuf, les orphelins. il est parfois difficile de s'en rendre compte, mais la communauté qui entoure l'endeuillé n'agit pas de façon naturelle : ses actes et ses paroles sont le fruit d'une éducation, d'une série de conventions apprises. mais il en est de même pour la personne en deuil : notre vécu intime cherche ses 'réponses' en autrui, en ceux qui l'entourent et donc dans les codes sociaux qui lui fournissent un modèle de comportement. en quoi le rapport normalisé à autrui fait partie du vécu intime du deuil ? comment la notion de 'faire son deuil' est vitale en tant qu'elle se fait en présence d'autrui ? de même, quelle place le collectif accorde à l'intime, au sentiment personnel et à sa manifestation ?
The challenge of this work is to address bereavement as an existential experience in a contemporary social context - living through the lost of a loved one is an abrupt change in a subject's life. Nevertheless, the subject is part of a collective, located in a society that reacts by regulating the experience of bereavement. Faced with the apparent solitude of mourning, the death of a loved one brings us to question identity as fundamentally relational beings. We focus our reflection on the abrupt change change that comes at the sudden news of the death of a loved one in the course of our existence, and which, as such, represents an abrupt change itself. Journeying through a period of mourning means being faced with the intensity and pointlessness of loss, of which no words can be said at the beginning. Starting from the unspeakable and incommunicable nature of bereavement, we address the question of meaning and of implementing practices in response to this situation of abrupt change.Problematising the expression "to be in mourning" reflects the creativity of the human subject when it is called to be a part of a social, economical, political and cultural environment upon the news of a loss. It is therefore important to emphasise the historical and social aspects of our reflection as it analyses the knowledge basis for bereavement. this epistemological analysis tends to consider bereavement as an "object" appropriate for both thought and practice. The objectives here are therefore normative and affect a singular conception of offering support to those in mourning and to those at the end of life in order that those involved in the issue may become involved in experiential continuity

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Novaes, Rafaella Eloy de. "Quando uma história torna-se um caso: narrativas de sofrimento no CAPS II de Taguatinga, Distrito Federal." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6171.

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This research deals with the relationship between experiences of suffering of people diagnosed with mental illness and clinical conditions and/or psychopathological categories through narratives. Embasa up in the theoretical and methodological formulations of the field of Anthropology of Health and of Disease undertaken by Das, Kleinman and Lock (1997), Das (2015), Good (1994), Kleinman (1988) and other like Bruner (1986) and Garro and Mattingly (2000). Its empirical indentation is composed by professionals, trainees and users/patients of the Center for Psychosocial Care II (CAPS II), located in the administrative region of Taguatinga, in the Distrito Federal. Field observations were made in the own CAPS and open interviews with users/patients, professionals and trainees. Basically, the search was guided from the following questions: What the people who are in the condition of users/patients of CAPS II Taguatinga tell how the experiences of suffering that led to that mental health service? How these narratives are appropriate by professionals and trainees of CAPS II Taguatinga? What Anthropology has to say about the mode of appropriation of suffering in the biomedical paradigm? It is argued that the appropriation of suffering narratives by clinical conditions and/or psychopathological categories dilutes complex experiences of social suffering in medical questions and/or psychological and hides deep relations between those experiences and historical and social processes broader.
Esta pesquisa trata da relação entre experiências de sofrimento de pessoas diagnosticadas com adoecimento mental e as condições clínicas e/ou categorias psicopatológicas por meio de narrativas. Embasa-se nas formulações teórico-metodológicas do campo da Antropologia da Saúde e da Doença empreendidas por Das, Kleinman e Lock (1997), Das (2015), Good (1994), Kleinman (1988) e outros como Bruner (1986) e Garro e Mattingly (2000). Seu recorte empírico é composto por profissionais, estagiários e usuários/pacientes do Centro de Atenção Psicossocial II (CAPS II), localizado na região administrativa de Taguatinga, no Distrito Federal. Foram feitas observações de campo no próprio CAPS e entrevistas abertas com usuários/pacientes, profissionais e estagiários. Basicamente, a pesquisa orientou-se a partir dos seguintes questionamentos: O que as pessoas que estão na condição de usuárias/pacientes do CAPS II de Taguatinga narram como as experiências de sofrimento que as conduziram àquele serviço de saúde mental? Como essas narrativas são apropriadas por profissionais e estagiários do CAPS II de Taguatinga? O que a Antropologia tem a dizer sobre o modo de apropriação do sofrimento no paradigma biomédico? Argumenta-se que a apropriação de narrativas de sofrimento mediante condições clínicas e/ou categorias psicopatológicas, dilui complexas experiências de sofrimento social em questões de ordem médica e/ou psicológica e oculta as relações profundas existentes entre aquelas experiências e processos históricos e sociais mais amplos.

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Allen, Francine LaRue. "Reclaiming the Human Self: Redemptive Suffering and Spiritual Service in the Works of James Baldwin." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/6.

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James Arthur Baldwin argues that the issue of humanity—what it means to be human and whether or not all people bear the same measure of human worth—supersedes all issues, including socially popular ones such as race and religion. As a former child preacher, Baldwin claims, like others shaped by both the African-American faith tradition and Judeo-Christianity, that human equality stands as a divinely mandated and philosophically sound concept. As a literary artist and social commentator, Baldwin argues that truth in any narrative text, whether fictional or non-fictional, lies in its embrace or rejection of human equality. Truth-telling narrative texts uphold human equality; false-witnessing texts do not. Baldwin shows in four of his novels the prevalence of the latter narrative type. Within the fictional societies of Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), Giovanni’s Room (1956), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974), and Just Above My Head (1979), Baldwin reveals how society’s powerful bear false witness against the marginalized through stereotyping social narratives. However, Baldwin uses his novels to show the humanity of the marginalized. In so doing, he connects his works, as well as the works of contemporary black literary artists, to the concept of Christian spirituality.

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N'Dreman, Assoi Jean-Luc. "Ethique et poétique dans l'oeuvre de Paul Ricoeur et dans les traditions africaines." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30088/document.

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La philosophie ricœurienne indique qu’il n’est pas de compréhension de soi qui ne soit médiatisée par des signes, des symboles, des textes ; elle peut donc être interprétée comme une chance pour la philosophie africaine. En effet, si on estime que le champ éthique s’étend à tous les domaines de la vie, si on admet avec Ricœur que l’existence est synonyme d’action, à savoir que « dire ‘’je suis’’, c’est dire ‘’je veux, je meus, je fais’’ », alors l’Africain traditionnel qui n’a pas une pensée systématique comme l’exige la philosophie grecque, mais a plutôt développé une pensée de ce qu’il fait, peut apporter au discours éthique sa modeste contribution. En effet, ses mythes, ses contes et même quelquefois ses chants, contiennent un enseignement à la fois pratique, symbolique et philosophique, à caractère universel. Entrer à l’intérieur d’un conte, c’est comme entrer à l’intérieur de soi-même
Ricoeur’s philosophy shows us that there is not any comprehension of self without it being mediated by signs, symbols and texts; it can be, therefore, interpreted as a chance given to the African philosophy. In fact, if we estimate that the ethical field extends to all human domains and if we admit, like Ricoeur does, the synonymy between action and existence – “to say I am, means I want, I move, I do” – thus the traditional African, who hasn’t a systematical thinking as required by the Greek philosophy, but instead has developed a thinking of what he can do, can bring into the ethical discourse his modest contribution. In reality, his myths, his tales and sometimes his chants, all contain a message that is at the same time: practical, symbolical and philosophical, with a universal character. To enter into a tail is like entering inside one’s self

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Sales, Larissa JucÃ de Moraes. "Medo e Sofrimento Social: uma anÃlise das narrativas de policiais militares em atendimento clÃnico." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=11456.

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Este estudo parte da perspectiva subjetiva de policiais militares no que se refere a sua atividade laboral. A pretensÃo Ã compreender como se estabelece a lÃgica explicativa sobre a atividade fim como parte do adoecimento do sujeito, sendo revelada por estes atores sociais, caracterizados pelos discursos de medicalizaÃÃo, como sujeitos em crise, âdiagnosticadosâ como portadores de doenÃas de cunho psicolÃgico. Para tanto, foi realizado trabalho de campo de sete meses intensivos em uma unidade de tratamento da prÃpria instituiÃÃo militar, o Centro Biopsicossocial da CorporaÃÃo. O acesso a estes sujeitos, bem como parte de seus tratamentos foi privilegiado, neste contexto interacional. Nas categorizaÃÃes simbÃlicas destes sujeitos, parte de seu adoecimento se deve a dois tipos de problemas detectados como constituintes de sua rotina de trabalho, primeiro como problemas que afetam diretamente o corpo do indivÃduo como, em alguns casos, as condiÃÃes de trabalho insalubres, falta de equipamentos de seguranÃa deixando o sujeito exposto ao imprevisÃvel, Ãs escalas de trabalho exaustivas, com horas consecutivas em pÃ, em pelo sol, entre outros. O segundo problema estÃ baseado em violÃncias simbÃlicas que incidem diretamente na mente do indivÃduo, provocando uma dor invisÃvel capaz de gerar sofrimentos, como o assÃdio moral, humilhaÃÃo, abuso de autoridade e as puniÃÃes veladas, este segundo problema Ã o mais recorrente nas narrativas destes sujeitos. Para estes agentes sociais tais problemas incidem em seus corpos em forma de doenÃas, sendo reverberadas em pressÃo profissional agindo diretamente nos modos de ser e de estar em sociedade. Para alguns, sÃo usadas tambÃm como justificativa para aÃÃes de violÃncia. Como aporte metodolÃgico, parte-se da experiÃncia etnogrÃfica nesse Centro de tratamento sobre a qual foram selecionadas as trajetÃrias de vida de trÃs militares e fragmentos de histÃrias de vida como fontes explicativas dessa problemÃtica. As justificaÃÃes se iniciam pelas condiÃÃes elencadas como propiciadoras de adoecimentos, passando pelo processo de acompanhamento terapÃutico e a adesÃo a grupos religiosos como possibilidade de cura. Em Ãltimo caso destaca-se um dos casos cujo fim trÃgico se configura como suicÃdio. Nesta perspectiva, categorias como humilhaÃÃo, sofrimento e medo sÃo usadas pelo prÃprio indivÃduo e pelos colegas de farda para explicar os seus dramas. Por fim pretende-se compreender como estes sujeitos entendem seu trabalho a partir desta condiÃÃo.
This research builds up from the subjective perspective of Military Police Officers in regards to their working activity. The intention is to understand how to establish an explanatory logic featuring work as a part of the subjectâs illness â as it is revealed by these social actors, characterized by the discourse of medicalization as âsubjects in crisisâ and âdiagnosedâ as carriers of psychological diseases. For such an enterprise, an intensive fieldwork research of seven months was conducted inside one of the military institutionâs treatment unit in Fortaleza, Brazil: the Corporationâs Biopsychosocial Center. Within this interactional context, the access to these subjects and a part of their treatments were selected as the focus. Following these subjectsâ symbolic categories, they attribute a share of their illness to two kinds of problems perceived as constituents of their work routine. First, as problems directly affecting the individualâs body, such as unhealthy working conditions, lack of security equipment leaving the subject vulnerable to the unpredictable, and the exhausting work schedules, with long hours standing on foot under the sun, among others. The second problem is based on the symbolic violence that directly affects an individualâs mind, inflicting an invisible pain capable of generating suffering, such as moral harassment, humiliation, abuse of authority and covert punishment. The second problem is the most recurring in these subjectsâ narratives. For these social agents, such problems affect their bodies in the form of illnesses, which reverberate as professional pressure directly influencing their ways of being in society. For some of them, these illnesses are also used for justifying acts of violence. An ethnographic experience was carried out as a methodological approach inside this treatment Center, from which the life trajectories of three military police officers and fragments of life stories were selected to feature as clarifying sources of this problem. The justifications are initiated by the aforementioned conditions conducive to illness, passing to therapeutic monitoring and concluded by adherence to religious groups as a possible path of cure. Another case to be highlighted is one of tragic outcome, which led to suicide. In this perspective, categories of humiliation, suffering and fear are mobilized by the individuals and their colleagues in uniform to explain their dramas. Ultimately, we aim to promote comprehension of how these subjects understand their work considering this condition.

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Nogueira, Francisco Ronald Capoulade. "Trabalho e sofrimento: as narrativas de alguns psicanalistas." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2011. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/272.

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The present dissertation discusses an investigation in the area of the Social Psychology of Work. Specifically, the author studied how five different psychoanalysts of Lacanian orientation listen to and deal with patients who bring with them some type of complaint related to the world of work. First, a theoretical investigation was carried out to determine into what field this dissertation should be classified, concentrating especially on a discussion related to the ontological aspects of work, its psychic consequences in the context of capitalism, possible contributions from the field of mental health as related to work, and theoretical elements from psychoanalysis. In the second phase of the research, five psychoanalysts were interviewed individually, their statements being classified as narratives. The content was established through semi-structured interviews that called for the narration of experiences in treating patients affected by some type of mental suffering related to work. In dealing with their patients the respondents tended to give greater weight to aspects related to family dynamics and histories than to aspects related to the world of work. This fact brings once again to the fore the old debate over the differences between individuals and collectivity in society.
A presente pesquisa visou investigar, a partir de uma perspectiva da Psicologia Social do Trabalho, como alguns psicanalistas de orienta??o lacaniana escutam e lidam com pacientes que t?m algum tipo de queixa relacionada ao mundo do trabalho. Primeiramente, foi realizada uma investiga??o te?rica que teve por intento situar em que campo se daria esta disserta??o, priorizando uma discuss?o dos aspectos ontol?gicos do trabalho, suas consequ?ncias ps?quicas dentro de um contexto capitalista, as contribui??es do campo da Sa?de Mental relacionada ao Trabalho e alguns elementos te?ricos da Psican?lise. No segundo momento da pesquisa, foram entrevistados cinco psicanalistas e suas falas classificadas como narrativas. Tal conte?do foi obtido por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas, orientadas para a narra??o de experi?ncias no tratamento com pacientes acometidos por algum tipo de sofrimento mental relacionado ao trabalho. Observouse que os entrevistados privilegiaram, nos tratamentos que empreenderam, mais os aspectos das din?micas da hist?ria familiar do que as din?micas do mundo do trabalho, reavivando um antigo debate entre o individual/coletivo.

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Balthazar, Adriana Maria Shad e. "O lugar do silêncio na violência homofóbica: o dizível e o indizível nas narrativas de sofrimento." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4502.

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O presente estudo tem por objetivo analisar o lugar ocupado pelo silêncio na narrativa de pessoas que sofreram violência homofóbica e que são acompanhadas pelos dispositivos públicos de atenção e cuidado a lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis e transexuais implantados no estado do Rio de Janeiro. Utiliza-se neste trabalho o conceito de homofobia como violência motivada pelo preconceito sexual, que se origina do processo histórico que produziu a separação entre homo e heterossexualidade e estabeleceu a última como norma. O trabalho de campo realizado em dois Centros de Referência e num dispositivo público de saúde incluiu entrevistas semiestruturadas com 11 usuários e 25 profissionais, no período de junho a novembro de 2011. A análise do material indica que o silêncio constitui-se como um discurso legítimo sobre a dor, servindo de proteção para a manutenção de determinadas relações, preenchendo, portanto, um espaço de fala. Reconhecer o lugar do silêncio, mesmo em dispositivos que se propõe a acolher denúncias de violência, pode facilitar o fortalecimento do encontro entre profissionais e usuários dos serviços voltados para pessoas LGBT.

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SALES, Larissa Jucá de Moraes. "Medo e Sofrimento Social: uma análise das narrativas de policiais militares em atendimento clínico." www.teses.ufc.br, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/7932.

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SALES, Larissa Jucá de Moraes. Medo e Sofrimento Social: uma análise das narrativas de policiais militares em atendimento clínico. 2013. 127f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2013.
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This research builds up from the subjective perspective of Military Police Officers in regards to their working activity. The intention is to understand how to establish an explanatory logic featuring work as a part of the subject’s illness – as it is revealed by these social actors, characterized by the discourse of medicalization as “subjects in crisis” and “diagnosed” as carriers of psychological diseases. For such an enterprise, an intensive fieldwork research of seven months was conducted inside one of the military institution’s treatment unit in Fortaleza, Brazil: the Corporation’s Biopsychosocial Center. Within this interactional context, the access to these subjects and a part of their treatments were selected as the focus. Following these subjects’ symbolic categories, they attribute a share of their illness to two kinds of problems perceived as constituents of their work routine. First, as problems directly affecting the individual’s body, such as unhealthy working conditions, lack of security equipment leaving the subject vulnerable to the unpredictable, and the exhausting work schedules, with long hours standing on foot under the sun, among others. The second problem is based on the symbolic violence that directly affects an individual’s mind, inflicting an invisible pain capable of generating suffering, such as moral harassment, humiliation, abuse of authority and covert punishment. The second problem is the most recurring in these subjects’ narratives. For these social agents, such problems affect their bodies in the form of illnesses, which reverberate as professional pressure directly influencing their ways of being in society. For some of them, these illnesses are also used for justifying acts of violence. An ethnographic experience was carried out as a methodological approach inside this treatment Center, from which the life trajectories of three military police officers and fragments of life stories were selected to feature as clarifying sources of this problem. The justifications are initiated by the aforementioned conditions conducive to illness, passing to therapeutic monitoring and concluded by adherence to religious groups as a possible path of cure. Another case to be highlighted is one of tragic outcome, which led to suicide. In this perspective, categories of humiliation, suffering and fear are mobilized by the individuals and their colleagues in uniform to explain their dramas. Ultimately, we aim to promote comprehension of how these subjects understand their work considering this condition.
Este estudo parte da perspectiva subjetiva de policiais militares no que se refere a sua atividade laboral. A pretensão é compreender como se estabelece a lógica explicativa sobre a atividade fim como parte do adoecimento do sujeito, sendo revelada por estes atores sociais, caracterizados pelos discursos de medicalização, como sujeitos em crise, “diagnosticados” como portadores de doenças de cunho psicológico. Para tanto, foi realizado trabalho de campo de sete meses intensivos em uma unidade de tratamento da própria instituição militar, o Centro Biopsicossocial da Corporação. O acesso a estes sujeitos, bem como parte de seus tratamentos foi privilegiado, neste contexto interacional. Nas categorizações simbólicas destes sujeitos, parte de seu adoecimento se deve a dois tipos de problemas detectados como constituintes de sua rotina de trabalho, primeiro como problemas que afetam diretamente o corpo do indivíduo como, em alguns casos, as condições de trabalho insalubres, falta de equipamentos de segurança deixando o sujeito exposto ao imprevisível, às escalas de trabalho exaustivas, com horas consecutivas em pé, em pelo sol, entre outros. O segundo problema está baseado em violências simbólicas que incidem diretamente na mente do indivíduo, provocando uma dor invisível capaz de gerar sofrimentos, como o assédio moral, humilhação, abuso de autoridade e as punições veladas, este segundo problema é o mais recorrente nas narrativas destes sujeitos. Para estes agentes sociais tais problemas incidem em seus corpos em forma de doenças, sendo reverberadas em pressão profissional agindo diretamente nos modos de ser e de estar em sociedade. Para alguns, são usadas também como justificativa para ações de violência. Como aporte metodológico, parte-se da experiência etnográfica nesse Centro de tratamento sobre a qual foram selecionadas as trajetórias de vida de três militares e fragmentos de histórias de vida como fontes explicativas dessa problemática. As justificações se iniciam pelas condições elencadas como propiciadoras de adoecimentos, passando pelo processo de acompanhamento terapêutico e a adesão a grupos religiosos como possibilidade de cura. Em último caso destaca-se um dos casos cujo fim trágico se configura como suicídio. Nesta perspectiva, categorias como humilhação, sofrimento e medo são usadas pelo próprio indivíduo e pelos colegas de farda para explicar os seus dramas. Por fim pretende-se compreender como estes sujeitos entendem seu trabalho a partir desta condição.

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Beltrán, Rodríguez Rafael. "Antropología y Enfermería: narrativa del sufrimiento y dolor - la formación para la expresión y comprensión emocional de los profesionales en los espacios sanitarios." Doctoral thesis, [s.n.], 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/4364.

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Tese apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências Sociais, especialidade em Antropologia
El propósito del presente estudio se enmarca en el análisis cultural en su desarrollo histórico, de la percepción del dolor - sufrimiento y alivio en el hombre a través de las diferentes culturas. El objetivo es saber como los alumnos de grado de enfermería de 1º curso en la Universidad Fernando Pessoa, Canarias, España, sin llegar a estar contaminados por la cercanía al dolor en sus prácticas clínicas, nos transmiten mediante entrevista en profundidad, y método cualitativo observacional sus vivencias de como perciben dolor y sufrimiento en su andar cotidiano, para con la obtención final de resultados y conclusiones poder llevar a cabo una intervención pedagógica coherente, de aplicación práctica. Una aplicación práctica que se hará concretamente con la asignatura de Antroposociología de la Salud, para llegar incluso a configurar directrices curriculares que nos orienten tanto a profesores como los propios alumnos, en aras de conseguir, al menos, una reflexión del etnocentrismo, el relativismo cultural, la diversidad y contacto cultural dentro de la práctica de la enfermería, con especial hincapié, en los comportamientos del futuro profesional de la enfermería en los apartados de sufrimiento y dolor. Al mismo tiempo, se llevó a cabo una intervención de características similares en cuanto a método (entrevista en profundidad) con profesionales de la enfermería con más de quince años de experiencia profesional, más la observación participante en un espacio de dolor y de esta manera poder comparar resultados y llegar a conclusiones como que, la enfermedad es un fenómeno social y como tal, solo se puede entender en el seno del preciso contexto sociocultural donde se produce como tal. Es necesario un mayor conocimiento si cabe, de la realidad a la que se enfrentan tanto alumnos como profesionales de la enfermería durante el desarrollo de sus prácticas o trabajo, en cuanto a sufrimiento, dolor y muerte, como nos refieren los entrevistados, no se encuentran preparados, no les han enseñado las habilidades básicas para este tipo de afrontamiento, obteniendo como resultado frustración personal, académica o profesional y en ocasiones desarreglos psicológicos de solución en multitud de ocasiones nada sencillas. Todo ello, es extrapolable a la totalidad de los trabajadores del mundo sanitario.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the cultural development over time of the perception of pain – both suffering and alleviation of pain, in humankind throughout different cultures. The objective is to understand how first year nursing students at the University Fernando Pessoa (Canary Islands, Spain), perceive pain and suffering in their daily lives. We can assume this group are naïve to situations of pain and suffering commonly found in clinical practice. We assessed subjects using both a thorough interview process and qualitative observational methods. The aim was to develop a coherent pedagogical intervention that can be applied practically and could be introduced into the Anthroposociology of Health curriculum. This tool would aid with the development of the curriculum with the objective of orientating both teachers and students to understand and reflect upon ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, diversity and cultural contact within the practice of nursing. Special emphasis would be made to development of future professional behaviours regarding pain and suffering. At the same time, we carried out a similar interview process with nursing professionals with over fifteen years experience, together with participant observation in areas where pain is prevalent. This allowed us to compare results between groups. Our results show that illness is a social phenomena and hence can only be understood in the precise sociocultural context in which it presents. It is important for us to have an understanding of the development of the attitude of these students regarding pain, suffering and death throughout their professional careers. We have found out from the interviewees that most of them found themselves unprepared for these situations, without knowledge of basic coping strategies and therefore resulting in personal, academic or professional frustration. Moreover, these problems occasionally caused psychological disturbance, which at times were difficult to treat. All of the above can be extrapolated to all workers within the healthcare profession.
O propósito do presente estudo enquadra-se na análise cultural, em seu desenvolvimento histórico, da percepção da dor - sofrimento e alívio no homem, através das diferentes culturas. O objetivo é saber como os alunos da licenciatura em enfermagem, do 1º ano, na Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Canárias, Espanha, não estando contaminados pela proximidade à dor nas práticas clínicas, transmitem, mediante entrevistas em profundidade e método qualitativo observacional, as suas vivências e suas percepções quanto à dor e ao sofrimento, na prática quotidiana. O objetivo final é poder levar a cabo uma intervenção pedagógica coerente, utilizando na pratica do ensino os dados obtidos com esta investigação. Uma aplicação prática que se concretizará na unidade curricular de Antropossociologia da Saúde, para chegar inclusive a configurar directrizes curriculares que nos orientem, tanto a professores como aos próprios alunos, com vista a conseguir, pelo menos, uma reflexão sobre o etnocentrismo, o relativismo cultural, a diversidade e contacto cultural dentro da prática da enfermagem, com especial finca-pé nos comportamentos do futuro profissional de enfermagem quanto ao sofrimento e dor. Ao mesmo tempo, levou-se a cabo uma intervenção de características similares no que respeita ao método (entrevista em profundidade) com profissionais de enfermagem com mais de quinze anos de experiência profissional, mais a observação participante num espaço de dor, para, desta maneira, poder comparar resultados e chegar a conclusões de forma a ter em conta a enfermagem como fenómeno social e, como tal, poder-se entender dentro de um contexto sociocultural preciso, onde ela se produz como tal. É necessário um maior conhecimento da realidade com que se enfrentam tanto alunos como profissionais de enfermagem durante o desenvolvimento de suas práticas ou trabalho, no que respeita ao sofrimento e à dor, como nos referem os entrevistados, dado não se encontrarem preparados, nem lhes ter sido ensinado as capacidades básicas para este tipo de abordagem, obtendo como resultado a frustração pessoal, académica ou profissional e, em certas ocasiões, distúrbios psicológicos de resolução numa variedade de ocasiões nada sensatas. Tudo isto é extrapolável à totalidade dos trabalhadores do mundo sanitário.
Le but de cette étude est l'analyse culturelle et son développement historique, de la perception de la douleur - souffrance et soulagement chez l'homme à travers les différentes cultures. L'objectif est de savoir comment les étudiants de 1ere année d’infirmerie de l'Université Fernando Pessoa, aux Canarias, en Espagne, sans être contaminée par la douleur d’un proche durant leur stage en clinique, nous transmettent à travers des interviews en profondeur et une méthode qualitative d’observation comment ils perçoivent leur expérience de la douleur et de la souffrance quotidiennement, pour pouvoir, grâce à l’obtention des résultats finaux et des conclusions, effectuer une intervention pédagogique cohérente, une mise en pratique. Une mise en pratique qui se fera concrètement avec la matière d’Anthropo-sociologie de la Santé , pour arriver même à définir des lignes directrices du programme d'études notamment pour nous guider nous les enseignants mais aussi les étudiants afin d’arriver, à atteindre au moins une réflexion de l'ethnocentrisme, le relativisme culturel , la diversité et le contact culturel durant la pratique des soins infirmiers, en mettant l'accent sur le comportement du futur professionnel en infirmeries dans le domaine de la souffrance et de la douleur. Une intervention de méthode similaire à été effectué en même temps (entretient en profondeur) avec des infirmiers avec plus de quinze ans d'expérience professionnelle, en plus de l'observation participant à une scène de douleur et donc en mesure comparer les résultats et en tirer des conclusions comme par exemple que la maladie est un phénomène social et ne peut donc être comprise que dans le contexte socioculturel dans lequel elle se produit. Il est nécessaire d’avoir plus de connaissances, si possible, de la réalité que les étudiants d’infirmerie rencontrent au cours du développement de leur stage ou du travail, en termes de souffrance, douleur et de la mort, comme nous l’indiquent les entretenues, ils ne sont pas préparés, ils ne leur ont pas enseigné la base pour ce type d' affrontement, provocant une frustration personnelle, académique ou professionnel et parfois, des dérèglements psychologiques dans de nombreux cas pas simples à résoudre. Tout cela peut être extrapolé à tous les travailleurs du secteur sanitaire.

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King, Daniel A. "Painful stories : the experience of pain and its narration in the Greek literature of the Imperial period (100-250)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c5509a42-cd3f-4e11-b9a1-8a3b6fa84101.

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This research project investigates the relationship between pain and the practices of explaining and narrating it to others. Current scholarship argues that the representation of suffering became, during the Imperial period, an increasingly effective and popular strategy for cultivating authority and that this explains the success of Christian culture’s representation of itself as a community of sufferers. One criticism of this approach is that the experience of pain has often been assumed, rather than analysed. Here, I investigate the nature of pain by attending to its intimate relationship with language; pain was connected to the strategies used to communicate that experience to others. I will show that writers throughout the Imperial period were concerned with questions about how to communicate pain and how that act of communication shaped, managed, and alleviated the experience. I investigate this culture along three axes. Part 1, ‘The Sublime Representation of Pain’, investigates the way different authors thought about the capacity of sublime language and rhetorical techniques such as enargeia to effectively communicate pain. I argue that for writers such as Longinus, the sublime offers an opportunity to replicate the traumatic experience of the pain sufferer in the audience or listener—pain is narrated to the audience through a traumatic communicative mode. Contrarily, I show how authors such as Plutarch and Galen were particularly concerned to desublimate the representation of pain, reducing the affective power of images of pain by promoting the audience’s conscious engagement with the text or representational medium. Part 2, ‘Medical Narratives’, examines a conflict between Galen and Aristides over the way language and narrative signified or referred to painful experiences. I show how both writers negotiate the way pain destroys and transcends ordered, structured, narrative by engaging in a process of narrative translation. I will illuminate the difference between scientific, diagnostic narratives which explain and rationalise pain experiences (in the case of Galen) and those which attempt to give witness to the nebulous, ineffable qualities of pain. In Part 3, ‘Narrating Cures’ I investigate ancient practices of psychotherapy. I show how various philosophical consolations were underpinned by an understanding of the power of pain to continually return and overwhelm the individual. I show further that the Greek romances engage in a type of talking cure: the novels use narration and story-telling to help assert the protagonists’ distance from their past traumatic experiences and, thus, allow the individual to overcome their painful past.

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Salas, Soneira Miguel. "Acción socioeducativa y locura. Tramas, narrativas y experiencias en el ámbito de la salud mental en Galicia." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/405844.

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La investigación aborda los mundos locales de experiencia donde las dinámicas interpersonales conectan lo corpóreo a lo colectivo, determinando la realidad de la locura. En escenarios variados y desde distintos puntos de vista, busca discernir las condiciones de posibilidad para una actuación socioeducativa basada en la experiencia y en el acontecimiento. Se centra muy especialmente en las tramas de significado, en las narrativas biográficas y en las experiencias de las personas diagnosticadas (contando también con testimonios de familiares y profesionales) a efectos de entender los mecanismos por los cuales los sujetos llegan a identificarse con, o a contestar, las representaciones hegemónicas que indican el modo en que debe vivirse la locura como enfermedad. En estos universos intersubjetivos se generan juegos de poder y contra poder a partir de los que se constituyen identidades diversas, al tiempo que se producen, reproducen o impugnan los marcos de referencia dominantes para el sufrimiento psíquico. La conceptualización de la acción socioeducativa gira en torno a las formas interpretativas de aquello que las coordenadas del régimen de normalidad establece como patológico, disfuncional, desviado o deficitario. A partir de un distanciamiento crítico de dichas nociones, se propone la articulación de un enfoque con el que abordar la pluralidad y complejidad de las expresiones del malestar humano. En esta perspectiva, el constructo esquizofrenia-psicosis-locura se examina más que atendiendo a sus variadas definiciones, admitiendo los controvertidos sentidos y significados que se ponen en juego mediante su uso. La tarea político-educativa se inscribe en el empeño de crear una serie de condiciones para la actuación, facilitando nuevas identificaciones y tránsitos a los sujetos –entendidos tanto individual, como colectivamente-, desde la construcción de sus propias biografías, historia social y de sus propios sentidos. En este contexto, se realiza el trazado de cómo y en relación a qué marcos de referencia, identidades y escenarios, se desarrollan estrategias para la construcción de la autonomía y la gestión del sufrimiento. La problematización de estos elementos se destaca como piedra de toque de una actuación educativa en materia de salud mental, cuya razón de ser radica en acoger y/o en dar inicio a lo diferente, más allá de categorías diagnósticas estancas. En contraposición al Modelo Médico Hegemónico que expulsa la voz narrativa de las personas de la comprensión de aquello que les sucede, individualizando y privatizando el sufrimiento, se propone una aproximación que reconoce la evidencia social del mismo, así como a los sujetos de la aflicción la condición de agentes de sus realizaciones vitales. Desde ahí, se recuperan temas fundamentales vinculados a la educación, los cuales se vinculan con las formas en que el malestar no solamente es comprendido, sino también examinado, pautado, controlado o transformado. Con un enfoque metodológico cualitativo (relatos biográficos y grupos de discusión), los principales resultados ponen de relieve la necesidad de tomar en consideración los procesos de producción de subjetividades disidentes dentro de contextos lábiles, no impositivos o jerárquicos, donde la semántica y las formas relacionales puedan disentir de las predominantes en los dispositivos asistenciales. Se reconoce el potencial de estos niveles de actuación, alejados de cualquier lógica individualizadora y tutelar que impida la emergencia de sujetos críticos, en orden a transformar las condiciones de producción de la opresión y/o el malestar.
The research addresses local worlds of experience where interpersonal dynamics connect corporeal states to collective realities which determine the reality of madness. In diverse scenarios and from different points of view, this analysis seeks to discern the conditions of possibility for a socio-educational action based on experience and occurrence. It focuses in particular on the frames of meaning, on biographical narratives, as well as on the experiences of diagnosed people (and also in the testimonies of their families and professionals) in order to understand the mechanisms by which the subjects come to identify themselves or disagree with the hegemonic representations that set out the way in which we should live madness as a disease. In these intersubjective universes power and anti-power games come into play and they generate diverse identities, and at the same time, the dominant benchmarks related to how psychological suffering is produced, recreated and refuted. The socio-educational action revolves around the interpretative forms of phenomena that the normality regime establishes as pathological, dysfunctional or deviant. Based on a critical detachment of these notions, the approach addresses the plurality and complexity of the expressions of human discomfort. The political-educational task is based on the pretext of enabling new identifications and transitions for these subjects, from the construction of their own biographies, their social records and their own sense experiences. Closely related to benchmarks, identities and scenarios, this work outlines how strategies are developed for the construction of autonomy and the management of suffering. The problematization of these elements stands out as a touchstone for an educational action whose raison d'être lies in welcoming or initiating that which is different, beyond rigid diagnostic categories.

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HE, SIH-YU, and 何思妤. "The Self-narrative in Suffering-A Female Christian’ Self-reframing." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k8k4s3.

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碩士
國立屏東大學
教育心理與輔導學系碩士班
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During the research of self-narrative in suffering, researcher retrospect the change of mental and physical after Alopecia Areata episode from May, 2010 to July, 2019. Researcher has been cured for four years, but it had no effect. Researcher searching for help from religion, then researcher had gone through a series of mysterious experiences of grace. And the self-conception is reframed; also, the standpoint and attitude of suffering are changed. 　　The study tries to analysis that how the religion influences the self of researcher and the progress of mental reaction to regards suffering as a blessing. 　　Jesus has ever said that “These things have I spoken unto you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” It’s true and the study is real. Researcher wishes that the self-narrative study can bring the people who are suffering a different seeing and hope.

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Tsao, Wen Chieh, and 曹文傑. "Journal of Suffering and Faith: A narrative inquiry and action research." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96278272789733167359.

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碩士
輔仁大學
心理學系
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Studying in the field of psychology, what I’ve learned is how to solve people’s problems and how to provide mental health care. Yet, if the problem is my own pain, my own suffering, what should I do? My thesis started with recording the process of assisting my brother’s alcoholic addiction and it turned out to be the process of how I explored my own limitation of framing questions. Through narrative and action research, I was given the opportunity to reflect on my past thoughts, and to change the way of thinking. I tried to depict a segment of my family history. My father was from Mainland China some 65 years ago. That was during the Civil War while the KMT army fled to Taiwan and my father was with the troop of General Sun Li-Jen. My mother was the eldest daughter of a peasant. Yet, she grew up to be a graceful lady. I know that it is impossible for me to picture the whole image of the generation. All I want to do is try to outline the contour and to reconstruct the atmosphere of that era. Hopefully, through my writing, readers may sense a little of how we have been influenced by the turbulent history. As a film maker, I participated in founding Taiwan Public Television Service and witnessed the thriving and prosperity of documentary films in Taiwan. Benefited from the progress of technology, I believe that documentary films could be a medium of social therapy. For individuals, the interaction between the subject and the object of filming might create healing dialogues. I think knowledge is something you’ve learned through your own body. Learning is not just some brain activities. It’s about your whole body. Going back to the wisdom of our ancestry, the creation of art works, physical exercise, breathing exercise and meditation, I’m convinced that it is time to re-evaluate the wisdom that is generated from the macrocosm and the microcosm.

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Alder, Suzanne Alvilda, University of Western Sydney, College of Social and Health Sciences, and School of Applied Social and Human Sciences. "Beyond the restitution narrative." 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/22873.

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The term ‘restitution narrative’ describes the hope we all have when illness or accidental impairment befalls us to be returned to a pre-morbid condition of health as soon as possible, and in modern Western society we expect the miracle of restitutions to be mediated by medical science. Medicine is still unable to cure a wide range of illness and disability. For these people the restitution narrative fails. This study attempts to create space between health and illness, the space of the failed patient, within which to explore the iatrogenic and disabling effects on bodies and minds living in a society that has come to expect not to suffer when illness or disability is incurable and chronic. Through the medium of a purpose built website, people who are chronically ill and disabled discussed the ‘wicked issues’ that make lives already challenged unnecessarily difficult. Application of the findings of research in psychobiology is applied to speculate whether health may be worsened by being a failed patient in a culture for which health has become the ultimate good. Ideas of social fuzziology are brought into play to help imagine ways in which the dualities of health and illness, normal and abnormal, are broken down and the normalizing ideologies of medicine resisted.
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Cheng, Tsengying, and 陳增穎. "Wounded Psychotherapists—Transformation and Practice of Suffering Life Experiences: A Narrative Analysis." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09546766613332916107.

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博士
國立臺灣師範大學
教育心理與輔導學系
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Suffering is an essential course experienced by everybody, psychotherapists are no exception. The purpose of this study was focused on suffering life experiences of psychotherapists. I explored the contents of their suffering life experiences, how the psychotherapists understood and constructed meanings of the experiences, the potential transformation of the experiences and how psychotherapists use their learning from these experiences in their clinical work. Narrative analysis indicated that psychotherapists interviewed in this study identified a number of suffering life events including what they wanted, losing what they loved, and encountering what they disliked. They got meaning of the suffering life experiences by defining the experiences as:” bearing and acceptance”, “commitment and expectation” and “insistence and believing”. Transformations indentified by the participants included: “it’s all up to me”, “following conditions (sui-yuan) while remaining unchanged (bu-bian) , remaining unchanged while following conditions.” and “ went through suffering and rejoice over life again.” Results of this study also showed that after suffering life experiences, psychotherapists had more compassion toward their clients, with a commiserating mind was practiced a commiserating practice, and as a patient companion during the long process of psychotherapy.

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Wan-PingYang and 楊婉萍. "Narrative of advanced cancer patients, families, professionals, and others on mutual suffering." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58451304276028040487.

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國立成功大學
健康照護科學研究所
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When advanced cancer patients are faced with the darkness of death and multiple physical symptoms, they may undergo complex difficulties that could be described as “total suffering,” which involves multiple levels of physical, psycho-social, and spiritual pain. Failure to identify a patient’s suffering will result in failure to provide appropriate “total care” and “spiritual care,” which may become yet another cause of patient suffering. The present study was conducted through narrative research, with 16 patients serving as the core of the study. A total of 51 participants also consisting of close and distant family members, others, and professionals were invited to participate using the cohort method. A total of 62 texts describing the suffering of the participants were evaluated in the hopes of understanding how the suffering of advanced cancer patients, their families, professionals, and others is described and dealt with. The results indicated four themes: stagnation, change, loss, and overload. When faced with suffering, the texts’ narrators lived in a state with a disfigured and twisted time line. The cohort information shows how the suffering of many can mesh together, indicating a gear-like apparatus of mutual suffering. For patients, the “disease” is the core, “physical suffering” is the core radius, and “the ability to handle suffering” is the gear radius. The gears are set into motion by suffering. The influence of family members is due to each individual “relation,” with “the distance between the patient’s heart and that of the family member” as the radius, and the family members therefore able to interlink with and influence the patient with love. The professionals’ core is “duty,” and with “professionalism and the ability to face suffering” as the radius, professionals are benevolent and interlinked with the patients through “trust and a relationship based on goodwill.” We hope that the study results can be implemented in the future as part of clinical medical practitioners’ background knowledge on spiritual care and death education for patients, families, and co-workers.

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Wu, Chen-Fan, and 吳晨梵. "Suffering From Apathy and Sorrow Simultaneously:A Life Narrative of a Suicide Survivor." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48995931187056886123.

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碩士
國立臺北教育大學
心理與諮商學系碩士班
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This thesis narrates my own life story as a suicide survivor with contradiction and confusion in experiencing the loss of my mother. The events related in the thesis are told using the life narrative research method by writing and reviewing my own life living with the grief buried in my mind. The analysis of my own stories in the thesis explores my own defense and the following unexpected pain. This thesis also tells a story within and between the boundaries of my professional work as a suicide prevention worker and my private life as a suicide survivor. In this self-healing journey by narrating my life of grief, the conflicts between these two roles were inevitable. Moreover, the role as a helper has always evoked me the perplexities as a suicide survivor. I was swinging and resisted between being existent and absent while facing my mother’s suicide in the early stage of healing. With the interpersonal communication with co-researches, I gradually perceived the rationale of the response of indifference and bereavement coexistence in the traumatic life events. Also, it helped me to develop a new understanding of the relationship between my mother and me. This thesis provided me with an opportunity to carry on my work with a clearer mind as well as to gain insights into the importance of life. More importantly, it helped me to clarify the confusions that have bewildered me since the death of my mother and completed the unfinished business, the bereavement with my mother.

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張育瑄. "A Social Worker’s Experiences of Suffering from Depression Twice：A Self-narrative Approach." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84107622772784156102.

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TSENG, CHAO-ERH, and 曾昭兒. "Circulation in mindfulness-based stress reduction suffering and self: a wounded counselor’s narrative study." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kx84dm.

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碩士
國立彰化師範大學
輔導與諮商學系所
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This study was wounded after a researcher involved in Mindfulness counselor decompression therapy experience all the story of transformation through self-narrative approach to respond to the wounded heart to become a counselor in perplexity and confusion, studies found that participation in mindfulness Less Pressure therapy experience meaning and history of self-transformation, suffering, both by helping professionals and other parts connected, the following instructions: 1.The level of awareness and physiological changes With mindfulness decompression therapy opened higher perceived physical ability, trauma and stress reactions observed in various parts of the body, trying to keep the memories of traumatic situations under mindfulness awareness, when the attention, acceptance and open attitude to face physiological response triggered by injury, panic, anxiety and shortness of breath becomes calm and soothing, relaxing the body and thus relieve the pressure to get results in different order to other psychological treatments, so traumatic nightmare inertia insomnia improved. Ongoing training also enhance the ability to endure pain and enhance the body's immune function and promote overall health. Indirect effects wounded counselor had a change of self and suffering, reduce inefficiencies sense to enhance the negative self-concept and self-centered ablation, more real, closer to his own understanding of the cases suffered physical and mental pain and, in many theories learned in school in, out injured, learned to live together with the bitter, self-healing. 2.Emotional and cognitive aspects of awareness and change In mindfulness decompression treatment different from the past trust support environment, begin to perceive and recognize their emotions coping, slow, safe and decent vent negative emotions, through mindfulness constant practice to reduce the wounded memories generalization, reducing trauma pain and suffering extent, no longer felt strong emotions struck only able to stay with the edge of consciousness in the moment. Accustomed to black and white, the phenomenon of self-criticism can treat equal heart, reducing the wounded feelings of attachment, stay or addicted, the number of times worse mood, intensity and length to get a lot of improvement compared with no experience in the face of suffering clinging to the past wounded thinking into negative coping inertia mode. 3.People perceive change my relationship with With mindfulness inner awareness experience and dialogue, the gradual acceptance of the past and face the wounded began to learn to love the attention and care of their own needs, as to focus on cases with their links, or vicarious trauma countertransference may not longer need to climb out and attached. Let longstanding conversion wounded guilt, blame can be put down, for people dedicated my relationship, eager to become more at ease, understand cause polymerization without force, to not force the attitude down to the dedication of many foreign territory, in every moment more secure to live. 4.The heart of spiritual awareness and transformation of consciousness Mindfulness sustained period of decompression treatment implementation, feeling self-deconstruction gradually from execution, to attachment, prompted me to rethink wounded as a counselor position and the meaning of existence, no longer clinging to past traumatic experiences, Instead, a deeper understanding of universal human Che shared pain and suffering the situation to stabilize inner strength mindfulness acquisition support himself, on pain of life in a manner different from the past and felt a deep and peaceful acceptance. Emphasis on intrinsic value is now more than extrinsic value, more open-minded view of life, appreciation, thanks to all of life, injury to my precious treasure. Overall, mindfulness decompression therapy counselor brought wounded self-repair and beyond, as well as the reconstruction of the meaning of suffering inspired above. Finally, based on the results of this study are discussed and specific recommendations are made to the reader, psychotherapy workers, counseling psychologist to develop education and future research directions.

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HSU, CHUN-CHI, and 許鈞棨. "A Narrative Study of Marital Relationship with Wives Suffering From Bipolar Disorder: A Dyadic Perspective." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2p4eee.

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國立彰化師範大學
輔導與諮商學系
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Purpose: The research aimed at exploring personal perception and interactive patterns of one with bipolar disorder in marital relationship. Methodology: From the systematic perspective, the qualitative research, narrative analysis, and dyadic analysis were adopted in the study. Moreover, two pairs of couple were interviewed in a semi-structural fashion with one conjoint interview and two individual interviews. Both of their wives suffered from bipolar disorder. The two pairs were aged between 36 and 37; one pair married for 3 years; the other, 11 years. One pair had a daughter; the other, none. Two wives of the pairs were diagnosed as bipolar disorder 5 years ago. Results: The development of their relationship consisted of pre-marital and marital phases. Prior to marriage, both of the two pairs enjoyed positive couple relationship even though the then girlfriends informed their then boyfriends of their bipolar disorder. Afterwards, in the marital phase, several challenges ensued, including caretaking burdens, financial pressure, etc. Overall, the two wives sought a sense of security in their marital relationship and their husbands’ responses were key to their stability of bipolar disorder. On the other hand, the husbands’ willingness and couples’ temporary separation were conducive to the settlement of their conflicts. Furthermore, under the framework of gender culture by John Gottman, the two pairs fell into the typical pursue-withdraw pattern. Lastly, two aspects, the role of caretakers and influence of family culture were taken to dissect the marital relationship of the two couples. Conclusions and Discussions: According to the research results, the researcher indicated the development patterns of marital relationship with bipolar disorder. The research suggestions are made for the pragmatic works of couple therapy as further references.

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Chang, Po-Ching, and 張博淨. "A Narrative Study Of Christian Cognitive Behavior Therapy With A Male Christian Suffering From Depression." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67379129956507962912.

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東海大學
宗教研究所
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The purpose of this research is to find out the positive factors that the research participant has received in CCBT Spiritual Interventions counseling process in order to apply to other neurosis cases. 　　The research participant is a male Christian over 30. He was diagnosed with depression 9 years ago. He met with the counselor once in two weeks for approximately six months. After the research participant received the first CCBT SI counseling session, he experienced “revival experience”, which made him felt all neurosis symptoms were gone. But all “triggers” of pressure were still there, hidden in his thinking pattern and emotional pattern. For the best result of counseling, he needed to deal with the root cause of his neurosis. Researcher scheduled another counseling sessions to help research participant remove the “Non-Biblical thinking pattern” and “Non-Biblical emotional pattern”. 　　During the 12 counseling sessions, researcher offered Scriptures as spiritual medicine to his spiritual need, the efficacy obviously was better than the medicine prescribed by psychiatrists. After these 12 counseling sessions, research participant recovered from Neurosis with no need of medical treatment. 　　Researcher collected the transcripts from two non-structured, in-depth interviews with research participant and one interview by telephone.Researcher followed the principles of Ground Theory in analyzing the transcripts to create open coding, which in turn created categories and axial coding, and obtained the results as follows: 1. the life story of the research participant; 2. coping methods before receiving CCBT Spiritual Interventions Counseling; 3. motives to receive CCBT; 4. positive factors to cope with neurosis in CCBT Spiritual Interventions Counseling; 5. efficacy of CCBT Spiritual Interventions. 　　Positive and effective spiritual interventions to cope with Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Insomnia, gastroenteritis were found. Based on these results, discussions and recommendations were proposed for further research and implications.

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林睿綺. "Long River of Life ~ The Narrative on the life experience of professional helpers with suffering cancer." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47646794625537087214.

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長榮大學
社會工作學系碩士班
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To understanding the mentality of professional helpers with suffering cancer, the helpers will explain the experience of illness and life on the influences and changes. The follow-up experience of self-healing and transformation process will build a new meaning of life. The research methods included the use of qualitative research in the narrative research with in-depth interviews and data collection to seek sampling methods to be found the participants. The total of three adults have been interviewed and engaged in social work related areas of professional helpers with suffering cancer from past to present. The interview time from the time of illness has been more then five years. The professional helpers have been agreed and reviewed to the course of illness and interpretation of self -life experience. The study participants included three professional helpers with suffering cancer who were affected by the recurrence of ovarian cancer, thyroid cancer and colorectal cancer. The three helpers with suffering cancer were narrative the life experience and mentality. This study focused on the life experience with suffering cancer. Some subjects may also appear the individual life with suffering cancer. The life experience with suffering cancer has been influenced by caregivers becoming of take-caregivers and inner-family and outer-family. The professional helpers with suffering cancer is more relevant to the theme included the professional life of the fracture and transformation, play a professional to repair and adaptability and link the recovery of support network and resources. The theorem will be reversed the negative concept of the group. The personal and professional life of professional helpers between the formations of an interactive cycle. The conclusion of the final put forward the practical and research level of the proposal.

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Son, Chul-Min. "The cultural dimension in a contextual hermeneutics of suffering." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/854.

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Most current studies of suffering are based upon an existential approach which focuses on suffering itself. Theodicy has mainly been concerned with people's attitudes and communication within themselves and with others about religious symbols and ideas. Particularly, this study examines the Korean attitude to suffering using its cultural dimension in a contextual hermeneutics. The researcher was interested in two notions: personal identity in its cultural dimension and the hermeneutics of suffering. The research questions addressed were as follows. a) How to define Korean personhood? b) What is cultural identity? c) How do people create personal identity? d) How does a person cope with suffering? The chief findings were as follows. a) A study of Korean self-understanding can be accomplished by exploring their lifeworld to describe and understand this people's language for daily communication, popular cuJtural myths, and spirituality. b) Cultural identity in this thesis means indigenous Korean self-understanding using the socio-cultural framework in its own terms and ideas. This self-knowledge mediates history, culture, and language. c) Personal identity is constructed by a narrative identity. d) Suffering can be coped with by communication with and through oneself, others, and God.
Practical Theology
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Lee, Win-Shine, and 李玟萱. "Self-narrative and reflection on religious experience from a Christian who suffering the loss of a beloved person through death." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61659780560686560831.

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國立暨南國際大學
成人與繼續教育研究所
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This paper states my story which is about a young Christian who started to be acquainted with religion and then doubted it because of love, and discusses the progress of the ten-year-lasting love, disease and religion after losing the love in my life. In our daily lives, most of people take it for granted that religion is the inner power and believe that we can gat emotional support and recover from it when we suffer from pains. However, in my statements, religion is not so seclude. The interaction between religion and people, just is like the progress of knowledge. In this paper, I tried to express how religion influences the value and the behavior of the people and me, and analyze how the progress of our religious understanding was practiced through “doubt-protect”, and ”destroy-reconstruct” when people and I interacted. I hope my paper can help Adult education workers understand the positives and negatives of religion, and help the Christian who lost his/her beloved has dynamic reflections and gets on with their lives.

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King, Regine. "“A Foolish Adventure" in a Country that went Mad: Healing Psychosocial Suffering in Post-genocide Rwanda." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42603.

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Abstract There is a scarcity of programs addressing psychosocial suffering in post-genocide Rwanda. The locally-initiated models are understudied and lack legitimate support to strengthen their interventions. This study addresses this gap by exploring the Healing of Life Wounds (HLW) program and its context of implementation. HLW is a community-based program that was introduced in Rwanda in 1995 by a Rwandan, Dr. Simon Gasibirege, to facilitate mutual healing among members of the groups involved in the 1994 genocide. Using a critical ethnographic approach, a multi-method data set was obtained from two groups of participants from two separate organizations applying HLW model. One group of twenty-three community participants from one local association shared their experiences as they participated in HLW. The other group included seven experienced HLW facilitators who provided their perceptions about using HLW from an international organization operating in Rwanda. The data also included HLW documents and reflexive notes. Dialogic performance analysis was the overarching analytical approach of the different data sets. Data collection, analysis and interpretation were guided by principles of critical theories, indigenous methodologies and narrative inquiry. The findings indicate that healing psychosocial suffering in the post-conflict global South requires innovative approaches that critically address on-going psychosocial issues affecting the marginalized by giving them voice and working with them to integrate contextual healing techniques. This study suggests that healing psychosocial suffering through HLW is a consciousness-raising process by which participants gain voice, acquire new understanding of issues affecting them through the sharing of personal stories, and develop mutual support and humane identities. This development contributes to individual, group and community healing. Openness and willingness to share stories of brokenness in a trustful and supportive environment enhance HLW outcomes. The study contributes to theories of knowledge and healing practices in cross-cultural settings, and to critical interdisciplinary and transnational research.

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Burlea, Suzana Raluca. "Encountering the suffering other in illness narratives : between the memory of suffering and the suffering memory." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4519.

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Cette étude porte sur la dimension intersubjective de la souffrance qui affecte le rapport du souffrant à son corps, au temps et à l’espace vécus de même que son identité narrative et sa mémoire narrative. Mon argument principal est que la voix narrative constitue le rapport intersubjectif dans les récits de maladie que les proches écrivent sur leurs partenaires souffrant de cancer de cerveau ou de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Ma discussion est basée sur l’éthique, la phénoménologie, les théories de l’incorporation, les études des récits de vie, la sociologie et l’anthropologie médicales et la narratologie. L’objet de mon étude est l’expérience incorporée de la souffrance dans les récits de maladie et je me concentre sur la souffrance comme perte de la mémoire et du soi narratif. J’analyse le journal How Linda Died de Frank Davey et les mémoires de John Bayley, Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch et Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire. J’explore comment les récits de maladie constituent le rapport éthique à l’Autre souffrant de la rupture de la mémoire. La discussion de la voix est située dans le contexte des récits de vie et se propose de dépasser les limites des approches sociologiques et anthropologiques de la voix dans les récits de maladie. Dans ce sens, dans un premier temps je porte mon attention sur des études narratologiques de la voix en indiquant leurs limites. Ma propre définition de la voix narrative est basée sur l’éthique dans la perspective d’Emmanuel Levinas et de Paul Ricœur, sur l’interprétation du temps, de la mémoire et de l’oubli chez St-Augustin et la discussion levinasienne de la constitution intersubjective du temps. J’avance l’idée que la “spontanéité bienveillante” (Ricœur, Soi-même comme un autre 222) articule la voix narrative et l’attention envers l’Autre souffrant qui ne peut plus se rappeler, ni raconter sa mémoire. En reformulant la définition augustinienne du temps qui met en corrélation les modes temporels avec la voix qui récite, j’avance l’idée que la voix est distendue entre la voix présente de la voix présente, la voix présente de la voix passée, la voix présente de la voix future. Je montre comment la voix du soignant est inscrite par et s’inscrit dans les interstices d’une voix interrompue, souffrante. Je définis les récits de vies comme des interfaces textuelles entre le soi et l’Autre, entre la voix du soi et la voix du souffrant, comme un mode de restaurer l’intégrité narrative de l’Autre.
In this research I examine the intersubjective dimension of suffering which affects the relation of the sufferer to his/her lived body, time and space, as well as to his/her narrative identity and narrative memory. I argue that narrative voice constitutes the intersubjective relation in illness narratives that caregivers write about partners or spouses who suffered from brain cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. My discussion draws on ethics, phenomenology, theories of embodiment, life-narratives studies, medical anthropology and sociology, and narratological theory. The object of my study is the embodied, subjective experience of suffering in illness narratives and the main focus is cast on suffering as loss of memory and loss of the narrative self. I analyse Frank Davey’s diary How Linda Died, and John Bayley’s memoirs Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, and Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire. I explore how illness narratives as embodied stories constitute an ethical relation to the suffering Other who bears a lived impossibility of remembering. I situate the discussion of voice in the context of life-narratives and aim at filling in the theoretical gaps of sociological and anthropological approaches of voice in illness narratives. For this, I examine and question narratological studies of narrative voice and focalization. My own definition of narrative voice is based on Emmanuel Levinas’s and Paul Ricœur’s ethics, Saint Augustine’s interpretation of time, memory, and forgetfulness, and on Levinas’s discussion of time as intersubjective relation. I suggest that “spontanéité bienveillante” (Ricœur, Soi-même comme un autre 222) modulates narrative voice as the attention towards the suffering Other whose voice is silenced. Reformulating the Augustinian definition of time that correlates the temporal modes with the reciting voice, I suggest that through the ethical stance towards the Other, voice is distended between the present voice of voice present, the present voice of voice past and the present voice of voice future. I show how the voice of the caregiver is inscribed by and inscribes itself in the interstices of an interrupted, suffering voice. I define life-narratives as textual interfaces between the self and the Other, between one’s own voice and the sufferer’s voice, as a mode of restoring the Other’s narrative integrity.

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Montgomery, Philip Kenneth. "Human transformation: disruption of the hegemony of consciousness." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/264.

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Abstract This dissertation is a narrative unraveling of a process of human transformation that interrupts the psyche’s propensity for creating the conditions for suffering. The self privileging of ego consciousness is posited as the origin of suffering. Temporary relief from suffering is accomplished by bringing forward the content of the unconscious. The condition that allows the content of the unconscious to come forward is disrupting the boundary separating consciousness and the unconscious. This boundary is established when reprehensible content regarding the self is repressed by an ego consciousness that thereby privileges itself. Disruption of the boundary separating ego consciousness and the unconscious allows for reintroduction of the previously repressed content to consciousness. As the boundary fails and ego consciousness is dethroned, unforeseen yet yearned for knowledge becomes available to consciousness thereby initiating the possibility for transformation and hence the momentary release from suffering. Implicit in this research are assumptions of self-motivation and self-organization that configure a theory of autopoiesis or self-making. Observed and observer selves are continually reshaped through continuous interaction in the psychosocial and physical environment. In this study this interaction is made visible through autobiographical narratives in which participant selves each demonstrate and share the insight of observer and observed. This narrative interaction is the simultaneous accomplishment and display of the process of human transformation. This transformation is always only momentary. It is a single moment in the ongoing expansion and contraction of the human psyche. Each transformative event reduces the potential for being irretrievably caught in continuous suffering. Each temporary release from suffering is a waypoint on the pathway of self-realization. The transformative process as presented in this study goes beyond existing accounts of consciousness change found in the annals of psychological methodologies, although Jungian terminologies are borrowed to describe loosely shared conceptual constructs. The aim in employing autobiographical narrative is to portray this elusive process as it is experienced including all its subtleties and nuances.

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