scholarly journals The lived body (Der Leib) as a diagnostic and therapeutic instrument in general practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolf Axel Langewitz
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Healthcare Provider ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Therapeutic Use ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Balint Groups ◽  
Comprehensive Diagnosis ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Ontological Categories

SummaryBased on vignettes from clinical cases, supervision and Balint groups this article presents a neo-phenomenological perspective on the lived experience of healthcare professionals in interactions with patients and relatives. Specifically, the familiar phenomenon of “something in the air” between two persons will be analyzed.Constellations and situations are presented as fundamental and generic (ontological) categories that can be differentiated to understand the details and the whole (die Gestalt) of an interaction.The term atmosphere is introduced to investigate the material carrier of something that “colors the air” between healthcare provider and patient.The neo-phenomenological taxonomy of the lived body (der Leib) is used to describe the recipient structure of atmospheric mood.Finally, the potential of these concepts for a more comprehensive diagnosis and for therapeutic use in general practice will be elucidated.

The Dance of Words

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
Lis Engel ◽  
Rikke Schou Jeppesen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
General Level ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Movement Experience ◽  
Movement Theory

Abstract This article is about language and lived experiences and analysis of movement of dance within Physical Education studies in Denmark with a special focus on how the language of movement and dance can be related to lived body and movement experience. The issue of the challenges and possibilities of expressing movement experience and analysis in words is discussed at the general level and exemplified in the context of a dance educational event where the movement theory of Rudolf Laban is applied. A central question arising out of this example of working with language and lived experience of movement is: What influence does language have on our way of understanding and communicating a dance experience? The article proposes that a bodily anchored lived language – through an ethic-aesthetic phenomenological approach – may supplement, expand and broaden a given professional terminology in order to articulate, communicate and unfold the experiential dimensions of dance.

scholarly journals Wounds: an overlooked burden (Part 1) – effective wound management starts with proper wound assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-198
Author(s):  
H Parkar ◽  
AD Cromarty
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Chronic Wound ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Wound Management ◽  
Wound Treatment ◽  
Wound Assessment ◽  
Wound Type

Healthcare professionals in general practice are tasked with treatment and management of wounds on a daily basis. The prognoses of these wounds are directly affected by the ability of the clinician to assess these wounds according to several parameters, including the wound type and the features which determine whether a wound is acute or transforming to a chronic wound. This can be achieved by proper and continuous wound assessment, which should guide wound treatment strategies to ensure optimal wound healing and prevent progression to complicated wounds.

scholarly journals Um estudo fenomenológico sobre o filme “a pele que habito”

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 280
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida Viggiani Bicudo ◽  
Débora Candido de Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Life World ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Mode Of Being

Resumo: Este estudo da película A Pele que Habito foi realizado da perspectiva fenomenológica e traz uma descrição do filme tomado como a coisa, ela mesma, mote da fenomenologia, lançando luz sobre o que ele nos traz, como a pele que eu habito. Buscamos compreender do que se trata essa pele, olhada na totalidade do corpo-vivente entendido como unidade física-psíquica-espiritual que, na temporalidade e espacialidade do mundo-vida que habita junto aos outros, vivencia experiências e se dá conta de si, vivenciando-as. Nosso estudo aponta para a compreensão de que a pele que eu habito diz do corpo-vivente que sou no fluxo contínuo das vivências que vão se entrelaçando e constituindo, pelos atos da consciência, pelas retenções e protensões do vivenciado, estilos de modos de ser da pessoa olhada em todos seus aspectos, destacando-se as diferenças e nuanças do modo de ser pessoa do sexo masculino e do sexo feminino.Palavras-chave: Fenomenologia; Corpo-vivente; Antropologia dual; A Pele que Habito. A phenomenological study on the movie “the skin i live in”Abstract: This study on the film The Skin I Live In was carried out from the phenomenological perspective, describing it as the thing itself, theme of phenomenology, shedding light on what it brings to us, as the skin I live in. We attempted to understand what this skin is about, seen from the wholeness of the lived body understood as physical-psychical-spiritual3 unit that, in the temporality and spatiality of the life-world that live next to others, senses experiences, and realizes itself, experiencing them. Our study points to the comprehension that the skin I live in represents the lived body that I am in the continuous flow of experiences that intertwine and become, through acts of conscience, retentions and protensions of the experienced, styles of being of the person, seen considering all aspects, highlighting differences and shades of the mode of being of the male and female genders.Keywords: Phenomenology; Lived body; Dual anthropology, The Skin I Live In. 

scholarly journals "Sidelined": Family Caregiver's Experience of the  Emergency Department: Insights from Family Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's Disease

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sandra Roberta Ridley
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Presenting Symptoms ◽  
Information Giving ◽  
Inpatient Settings

<p>Older patients with a cognitive deficit, such as seen in Alzheimer's Disease (AD), have not been extensively researched in ED. Often patients with AD are accompanied by a familiar person such as a family caregiver when they present to an acute care facility. Literature has shown that family caregivers' have reported dissatisfaction with interaction with healthcare professionals in inpatient settings. There is a paucity of research on the experiences family caregivers have in ED. This study explored the experiences of family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's Disease in the ED of a regional hospital in New Zealand. A Hermeneutic phenomenology method was used to bring meaning to the lived experience of family caregivers in the ED. Ricouers Interpretation theory was used to analyse and interpret the data. Six family caregivers were interviewed, using semi-structured interviews, to explore and give meaning to their experience. Findings revealed family caregivers were 'sidelined'; felt invisible, ignored and abandoned by the healthcare professionals in ED. There appeared to be little understanding about dementia symptoms, or the needs of caregivers of people with AD. The experience was distressing for participants who felt they were not able to relay information about their loved one that was pertinent to their health and presenting symptoms. Health Professionals tended to speak directly to their loved ones and not with the participants. Consequently there was a risk of misinformation and poor communication driving treatment decisions for these patients. Participants reported poor information giving and family caregivers were left for long periods of time with no contact, and no support. Despite this, caregivers justified and excused the actions of healthcare professionals. They became passive recipients of process and procedures that were not adequately explained.</p>

scholarly journals An established practice in new surroundings: concepts, challenges, pitfalls and guidelines for NCHD Balint Groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Douglas ◽  
L. Feeney
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Group Leader ◽  
Balint Groups ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hospital Doctors

Balint groups are now mandatory for psychiatry trainees. Balint groups have been in existence in General Practice for several decades. Providing Balint groups for Psychiatry Non Consultant Hospital Doctors brings with it challenges for the group leader and participants. Many of these challenges are common place in any form of group work, while others are unique to this cohort. This article describes these challenges. Guidelines which offer the the group the best chance of success, in the face of these common challenges, are discussed.

scholarly journals New teams in general practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 506-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamila Hawthorne ◽  
Ben Jackson ◽  
Danielle Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Healthcare Outcomes ◽  
Complex Patients ◽  
Primary Care Teams ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Parallel Stream

The NHS is seriously under-doctored, with general practice being one of the worst-affected specialties. GPs are a highly trusted and valued profession by patients. In addition, the ‘gatekeeping’ function and continuity of care they provide is critical to the efficiency of the services as a whole, keeps hospital admissions down, and produces better healthcare outcomes for communities and populations. Major efforts are being made to recruit new GPs and retain existing GPs, but there are serious implications for the future of primary care, and general practice in particular, as GPs struggle to cope with increased workloads. Increasing the number of GPs in the workforce is critical, and this work continues as a priority. However, a parallel stream of work has developed to consider ways in which tasks ‘traditionally’ undertaken by a GP might be diverted to new healthcare professionals within primary care teams, freeing up GPs to concentrate on the care and management of their more complex patients.

Body and Place as the Noetic-Noematic Structure of Geographical Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-281
Author(s):  
Stefan W. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In this paper, I use Husserl’s phenomenological analyses of noesis and noema to investigate the connection between experience and place, a relation which I call “geographical experience,” using a term coined by Edward Relph. Following the correlative structure of lived experience, geographical experience is enabled by the lived body as the noetic part and place as the respective noematic part. Both parts belong together necessarily. However, in this experiential field, distortions and an eluding aspect of place appear in the relationship between body and place. These distortions point to an aspect of geographical experience that cannot be fully grasped by the noetic-noematic structure of experience. They indicate that the reality of place is not completely constituted by this correlative structure but nevertheless becomes apparent in and through it.

Oral Medicine Considerations for Older Patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Jayne Patterson ◽  
Amanda Willis
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Oral Cavity ◽  
Older Patients ◽  
Facial Pain ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Oral Medicine ◽  
Mucosal Disease ◽  
Older Populations

With the projected increase to 1.3 billion people aged 65 years or older by 2040, healthcare professionals are faced with significant challenges in managing this population of patients. In the oral cavity, oral mucosal disease is a significant problem found in older populations. Several facial pain conditions are more likely to be seen in this cohort of patients. Although management of this group of patients may not always be appropriate in general practice, an awareness of the range of oral medicine conditions that may be encountered in older patients is essential to allow prompt referral and treatment.

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