Phenomenological Psychopathology and Qualitative Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 924-940
Author(s):  
Massimo Ballerini
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
First Person ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Invariant Structure ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
Phenomenological Psychopathology

Qualitative Research (QR) involves an interpretative approach to experimental data, generating meaning structures with specific properties. A hermeneutical approach to anomalous subjectivity is the core feature of phenomenological psychopathology, representing an excellent theoretical background for QR. In this perspective, psychiatric disorders are considered peculiar existential stances: despite all the patients’ biographical details and personal variations, they display a typical invariant structure residing in specific (anomalous) arrangements of patients’ structures of subjectivity. In phenomenological psychopathology-oriented QR, first person subjective experiences articulated in personal narratives are converted in transpersonal constructs (TPC), valid for a class of individuals—that is, people suffering from schizophrenia. TPC are synthetic schemes of comprehension of a manifold of experiences; they outline the typical invariant features of anomalous experiences, translating the first person subjective perspective in third person, objective descriptions; TPC reflect specific forms of patients’ anomalous subjectivity.They describe efficaciously the existential arrangement of people affected by specific psychiatric disorders, contributing to the fine description of clinical phenotypes. Refined TPC may be employed to draw rating scales

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. xx-8
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini ◽  
Matthew Broome ◽  
Anthony Vincent Fernandez ◽  
Paolo Fusar-Poli ◽  
Andrea Raballo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Psychiatric Study ◽  
Phenomenological Psychopathology

This introductory chapter discusses the primary focus of psychiatry and how phenomenological psychopathology in particular serves as the basis for psychiatry. It argues that psychiatry is not only a biological discipline. It must maintain an intense concern with the quality of patients’ experiences by focusing on the “psyche” and not just the brain, which is of interest to psychiatry only insofar as it helps one better understand the relevant psychic phenomena. Thus, one must investigate the relationship between these subjective experiences, the brain, and the way we classify psychiatric disorders. In this light, phenomenological psychopathology becomes increasingly central to these discussions. At present, the psychiatric study of psyche and subjectivity is defined mainly by changes in experience and behavior. Therefore, psychopathology, the discipline that assesses and makes sense of the suffering psyche, is at the heart of psychiatry.

scholarly journals Integrating qualitative research methodologies and phenomenology—using dancers’ and athletes’ experiences for phenomenological analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Ravn
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
Emic Perspective ◽  
Second Person Perspective

AbstractThis paper sets out from the hypothesis that the embodied competences and expertise which characterise dance and sports activities have the potential to constructively challenge and inform phenomenological thinking. While pathological cases present experiences connected to tangible bodily deviations, the specialised movement practices of dancers and athletes present experiences which put our everyday experiences of being a moving body into perspective in a slightly different sense. These specialised experiences present factual variations of how moving, sensing and interacting can be like for us as body-subjects. To use of these sources inevitably demands that qualitative research methodologies – especially short-term ethnographical fieldwork – form part of the research strategy and qualify the way the researcher involves a second-person perspective when interviewing dancers and athletes about their experiences. In the subsequent phases analysing the data generated, I argue that researchers first strive to achieve internal consistency of empirical themes identified in the case of movement practices in question thus keeping to a contextualised and lived perspective, also denoted as an emic perspective. In subsequent phases phenomenological insights are then actively engaged in the exploration and discussion of the possible transcendental structures making the described subjective experiences possible. The specialised and context-defined experiences of ‘what a moving body can be like’ are accordingly involved as factual variations to constructively add to and potentially challenge phenomenological descriptions. Lastly, I exemplify how actual research strategies have been enacted in a variety of projects involving professional dancers’, golfers’ and sports dancers’ practices and experiences, respectively.

scholarly journals PERANAN DAN BENTUK TORTOR PADA PEMENTASAN OPERA BATAK DI PUSAT LATIHAN OPERA BATAK PLOt)PEMATANG SIANTAR

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Devi Lasroha Sinaga
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Research Use ◽  
First Person ◽  
Shape Theory ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Music Player

This study aims to determine the form of presentation of operas Batak, to describe a way of presenting opera Batak, to describe the form of presentation tortor, and to know the role tortor in staging opera Batak. The theoretical foundation of this research rests on several theories studied, namely the theory of presenting opera Batak, tortor presentation shape theory and theory of the role, with the conceptual framework as a translation problem contained therein. This research was conducted in the street Bah Bolon Kiri (Lorong IV) No. 96 Siantar, in December 2015 to February 2016. The method in this research use descriptive qualitative research methods. The population in this study were 1 informants who are knowledgeable about dance (tortor) in staging opera Batak, 1 director, 1 music player, and the first person who joins the cast in the opera Batak, the number of samples to be studied amounted to 4 people. Data collected through observation, interviews, documentation, and literature study. The results of this study indicate that the form of presentation of opera Batak has important elements, namely: a play (drama), dialog, music (gondang), song (ende) and dance (tortor). Tortor the form of presentation of operas Batak presented three times, at the beginning, middle and end of the scene. Tortor role in staging opera Batak serve to embellish what is dictated by the script becomes symbolic, ensuring variation in the opera  aesthetics, strengthening the scene / act story, become entertainment and become transition between scenes

scholarly journals Capturing invisible dimensions of terrorist victimisation through photography and video: Theoretical background for a research in progress in the Basque country

Temida ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Gema Varona
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Spanish Law

Memorialisation is experienced by victims of traumatic events as a form of justice. Victims? and society right to memory is mentioned in the Basque Law 4/2008 on recognition and protection of terrorism victims and the Spanish Law 29/2011 on recognition and integral protection of terrorism victims. Drawing from critical victimology and memory studies, this contribution aims at addressing current criticism by some victims? organizations with regard to memory public policies in this field. It particularly addresses ways of restoration through memory linked to the meaning of spaces of victimisation by examining the work of different photographers on making aspects of those victimisations visible for the contested purpose of remembering. First the conceptual framework on space, victimisation and memory is presented. Then it is related to the results of qualitative research by the Basque Institute of Criminology. At the end the micro, meso and macro aspects of local intervention proposals on restorative memory, including ethical remarks are commented.

scholarly journals Qualitative Interview Analysis: Unpacking Packed Interviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 42-42
Author(s):  
Michelle Silver
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Interview Analysis

Abstract Retirement is an ever-evolving, dynamic, and complex social construct we associate with the end of one’s career. Exploring what retirement means to different people can contribute to a better understanding of the implications of this important transition at the individual and societal level. However, sifting through participants stories is not always a straightforward endeavor, particularly in the case when participants have something to hide. This paper examines the value of qualitative research methods in unpacking complex personal narratives. As the landscape surrounding mature workers’ experiences continues to change, this paper extends policy debates about retirement, as well as scholarly conversations about the richness and complexity of qualitative research.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS USING “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST” MOVIE SCRIPT

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Elisa Fadlilah ◽  
Rika Septyani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
First Person ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Beauty And The Beast ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Movie Script ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study deals with the English deixis. The objectives of this study are to analyze type of deixis and to find out the frequency of each deixis in the movie entitled Beauty and The Beast. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The source of data was taken from the movie script of Beauty and The Beast. Documentary technique is used in collecting data. The findings showed that there are three types of deixis found in the Beauty and The Beast movie script and there are nine frequencies of deixis, namely person deixis in greater occurrences than another. Type of person deixis is used 128 times or (84,21%), which consists of first person used 53 times or (34,86 %), second person used 52 times or (34,21 %), and third person used 23 times or (15,13 %). The next, spatial (place) deixis is used 12 times or (7,89 %) and the last, temporal (time) deixis is used 12 times or (7,89 %) which consists of present used 5 times or (3,28 %), past used 5 times or (3,28 %), future used 2 times or (1,31 %). The least frequently used by the Beast in Beauty and the Beast Speech film`s dialogue was first person deixis used 53 times or (34,86 %). Keywords:  Pragmatic, Movie,  Deixis

scholarly journals Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First-Person Experience of News

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nonny de la Peña ◽  
Peggy Weil ◽  
Joan Llobera ◽  
Bernhard Spanlang ◽  
Doron Friedman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
News Story ◽  
First Person ◽  
Fundamental Idea ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Sense Of Presence ◽  
Head Mounted Displays ◽  
Immersive Systems ◽  
Person Experience

This paper introduces the concept and discusses the implications of immersive journalism, which is the production of news in a form in which people can gain first-person experiences of the events or situation described in news stories. The fundamental idea of immersive journalism is to allow the participant, typically represented as a digital avatar, to actually enter a virtually recreated scenario representing the news story. The sense of presence obtained through an immersive system (whether a Cave or head-tracked head-mounted displays [HMD] and online virtual worlds, such as video games and online virtual worlds) affords the participant unprecedented access to the sights and sounds, and possibly feelings and emotions, that accompany the news. This paper surveys current approaches to immersive journalism and the theoretical background supporting claims regarding avatar experience in immersive systems. We also provide a specific demonstration: giving participants the experience of being in an interrogation room in an offshore prison. By both describing current approaches and demonstrating an immersive journalism experience, we open a new avenue for research into how presence can be utilized in the field of news and nonfiction.

Journey in a Life Story and Pilgrimage: Exploring the Connection Between Humans and Place in a First-Person Narrative

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Tiiu Jaago ◽  
Tiina Sepp
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Life Story ◽  
First Person ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract This paper will explore the relationship between humans and place mediated in first-person narratives. By focusing on episodes that reveal the change in the ordinary role of the person, we examine how they describe the place and how they perceive the environment in their changed role. Drawing on interviews with a man who has walked a pilgrimage/hiking trail as well as a written life story from the collections of the Estonian Cultural History Archives, we analyse the description of modern journeys and the journeys that took place in the vortex of events during World War II. We suggest that the descriptions of place-making under consideration are related not only to subjective experiences and storytelling skills, but also to more general contexts, such as historical-political, economic, or religious frames. Comparing various kinds of place-making description we attempt to find the universal and context-sensitive aspects of journey descriptions. Finally, based on studies of oral history and cultural borders on the one hand, and pilgrimage studies on the other, a methodological question is asked: how should one apply these research methods and results to place-making research? Combining these research methods has turned out to be fruitful in creating a dialogue between experiences that have been formed in different circumstances, and through this to understand better the factors determining one’s sense of place.

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