Maintaining Sense of Self Identity in Dementia through Music Therapy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Painter
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Identity

Moral Disability, Moral Injury, and the Flight from Vulnerability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia L. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moral Injury ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Moral Reflection ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Moral Conviction ◽  
Moral Importance

This chapter explores the concept of moral disability, identifying two types. The first type involves disabling conditions that distort one’s process of moral reflection. Examples include the incapacity to consider the long-term future, to feel empathy for others, and to be honest with oneself. A noteworthy example of self-deception is systematically denying one’s own—and humanity’s—vulnerability to the power of others, to accidents, and to having one’s well-being linked to that of others and the eco-system. Acknowledging vulnerability often requires a new sense of self. The second type includes incapacities directly resulting from ‘moral injury’—debilitating, self-inflicted harms when one violates a deeply held moral conviction, even if trying to remain true to another moral value. Examining moral disabilities highlights the moral importance of self-identity. More progress may be made on controversial issues if we discuss who we are, how we connect, and how we can heal.

The conflict between mind and body – the case of Mrs. R.

Physiotherapy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Stępień ◽  
Sylwia Chładzińska-Kiejna ◽  
Katarzyna Salamon-Krakowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalizations ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Memory Awareness ◽  
And Control

AbstractDissociative psychopathology is understood as an immature defence mechanism of personality, based on the techniques of reality distortion. The natural cause of a disorder reflects the lack of sense of coherence between identity, memory, awareness, perception and consequently - goal orientated action. Its symptoms manifest the separation of emotions, thoughts and behaviours bound with an event in order to maintain an illusory sense of control of demanding and unbearable experience.We describe the case of a 57-year-old woman suffering from broad range of dissociative symptoms from early childhood. Decomposition of integrity between memories, a sense of self-identity and control of the body has become the cause of numerous suicide attempts, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and not fully effective therapy attempts. Destructive influence of psychopathological symptoms negatively influenced patient’s life course, decisions made as well as family, work and social life.

scholarly journals Autobiographical Memory and Episodic Specificity Across Different Affective States in Bipolar Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael de Assis da Silva ◽  
Marcelo Baggi Tancini ◽  
Renata Lage ◽  
Rodrigo L. Nascimento ◽  
Cristina M. T. Santana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Time Integration ◽  
Unipolar Depression ◽  
Mood States ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Psychiatric Interview ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Bipolar Patients

Autobiographical memory is essential to ground a sense of self-identity, contributing to social functioning and the development of future plans, and being an essential source for the psychiatric interview. Previous studies have suggested loss of autobiographical episodic specificity in unipolar depression, but relatively fewer investigations have been conducted in bipolar disorder (BD) patients, particularly across different mood states. Similarly, there is a scarcity of systematic investigations about mood-congruent and mood-dependent memory in relation to autobiographical memory in BD. Considering this, a total of 74 patients with BD (24 in euthymia, 26 in mania, and 24 in depression) responded with autobiographical memories to cue words belonging to four categories: mania, depression, BD, and neutral. Episodic specificity was scored according to the Autobiographical Interview, with high intra- and inter-rater reliability. Results indicated that patients in mania generally re-experience more episodic details than those in depression. Depressed bipolar patients reported fewer details of perception and less time integration of memories than those in euthymia or mania. Words linked to depression and BD induced greater episodic re-experiencing than neutral words, just as words about BD provided greater episodic re-experiencing and more details of emotion/thoughts than words about mania. Words linked to depression provoked more time details about the recalled episodes than words on BD or neutral themes. No mood-congruent or mood-dependent effects were observed. Current findings may improve the ability of clinicians to conduct psychiatric interviews and the diagnosis of BD, with special attention to how memory details are generated across different mood states of the condition. Additionally, interventions to foster autobiographical recollection in BD may be developed, similar to what has already been done in the context of schizophrenia.

scholarly journals The discursive cultural representations of Gentiles: A contextual approach using migration theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zorodzai Dube
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Self Identity

How are social boundaries created and how are they maintained? To an extent, the way people look, dress and talk demarcates cultural markers that distinguish them from others − hence, giving them a sense of self-categorisation and self-identity. However, with time such collective identity might need readjustment when people from another culture become insiders and neighbours within the perceived social boundaries. Regarding this, James Dunn noted that a challenge of social cohesion between the Jews and the Gentiles existed during the 1st century, necessitated by the conversion of Gentiles to Christianity. In response, to keep their exclusive collective identity, the Jews demanded that the Gentiles observe Jewish law. This article develops Dunn’s view that the observance of Jewish law provided implicit social exclusion strategies towards the Gentiles. However, Dunn did not elaborate further concerning the strategies upon which Gentiles were excluded. As contribution to fill that void, this article drew on strategies of inclusion and exclusion from the analogy of migration in South Africa and elsewhere.Hoe word sosiale en kulturele grense geskep en onderhou? Tot ’n mate bewerkstellig die manier waarop mense uiterlik voorkom, aantrek en praat kulturele kenmerke wat sekere groepe van ander onderskei, en verleen so aan hulle ’n bepaalde identiteit en klassifisering. So ’n gemeenskaplike identiteit moet mettertyd aangepas word as mense van ander kulture met ander gebruike deel word van die binnekring. In hierdie verband merk James Dunn op dat, in die eerste eeu na Christus, die Jode en heidene aangespoor is tot ’n samehorigheidsgevoel wat deurdie bekering van heidene tot die Christendom genoodsaak is. In reaksie hierop het die Jode aanvanklik verwag dat die heidene die Joodse wet moes nakom. Hierdie artikel bou op Dunn se siening, naamlik dat die onderhouding van die Joodse wet sosiale strategieë ontwikkel het wat die heidene onvoorwaardelik uitgesluit het. Dunn brei egter nie verder oor die sogenaamde strategieë uit nie. In hierdie artikel word gepoog om hierdie leemte aan te vul deur middel van ’n vergelyking met kontemporêre migrasie in Suid-Afrika en die strategieë van insluiting en uitsluiting wat bespeur word in sulke kontekste, te verdiskonteer.

Making Sense of Self: An Autoethnographic Study of Identity Formation for Adolescents in Music Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150
Author(s):  
Allison Echard
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Clinical Thinking

Abstract Told through my experiences of working with three teenagers who had mild and moderate developmental disabilities, this autoethnographic study considers identity formation as a core concept in music therapy clinical practice. In doing so, I explored theories of identity formation, including those described by Erikson (1950, Childhood and society, Norton), Marcia and colleagues (1993, Ego identity: A handbook for psychosocial research, Springer), and Crocetti, Rubini, and Meeus (2008, Journal of Adolescence, 31(2), 207–222), relating these concepts to each of the teenagers I worked with. This article, therefore, chronicles the ways in which my clinical thinking shifted from a skills-based approach to one that considers the client’s identity as a whole, leading to suggestions of ways to integrate identity formation theory into clinical practice.

Somatic Sensing and Creaturely Knowing in the University Improvisation Class

2019 ◽  
pp. 462-478
Author(s):  
Alison East
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Movement Patterns ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Integral Relationship ◽  
Dance Improvisation ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
University Setting

This chapter introduces an approach to teaching dance improvisation in a university setting which invites students to search beneath their learnt dance techniques and familiar movement patterns in order to uncover their most fundamental levels of ‘creaturely knowing’, a term used by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, and ‘somaesthetic sensing’, a term used by Richard Shusterman. Sourcing movement through this improvisational approach has the potential to heighten and broaden students’ sense of self-identity and stimulate their creativity and artistry. In the process, students come to understand their integral relationship with, and their connection to, the ecology of the classroom and, by inference, a world ecology. Specific links with the biological and neurological sciences and the artistic and educational practice of improvisation are espoused, along with the educational value of such a practice within academia.

scholarly journals Value co-creation in Couchsurfing – the Indonesian host perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
U Sevisari ◽  
Ina Reichenberger
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Collaborative Consumption ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Intrinsic Nature ◽  
Cultural Self

© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Collaborative consumption experiences in tourism have been examined widely, yet predominantly focused on guest perspectives. Using the sharing economy platform Couchsurfing, this study aims to use value co-creation to explore hosting experiences in non-monetary accommodation sharing in a developing country, including hosts’ motivations to participate, the range of social practices during hosting and the value outcomes achieved through hosting. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a social constructivist paradigm, 20 in-depth interviews and 1 focus group were conducted with experienced Couchsurfing hosts in Indonesia. Findings: Findings highlight the exclusively intrinsic nature of hosts’ motivations and their subsequent impact on co-creational practices and value outcomes. Social practices revolve around the establishment and acquisition of social and cultural capital and providing guests with authentic local and cultural tourist experiences. Hosts reported value outcomes relating to friendship, knowledge, an improved sense of self and employment opportunities. Research limitations/implications: The results of this research may not be transferable to Western accommodation sharing settings or more rural and less touristically developed regions within developing countries. Social implications: It is argued that hosting can contribute positively to host communities in developing countries by facilitating intercultural communication and knowledge transfer while enhancing cultural self-identity and professional advancement. Originality/value: The majority of existing research on accommodation sharing has examined guest perspectives while being placed within predominantly Western contexts. This paper adds new knowledge by exploring the host perspective and examining the impacts of the sharing economy in a developing country.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND PECULIARITIES OF BUILDING A PERSONAL MYTH IN TEEN AGE

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Personal Myth ◽  
The World

The article analyzes the attention to the deep essence of myth as a scientific phenomenon, which is the primary form of awareness of the world both in ontogenesis and in human phylogenesis. The myth is interpreted as a special way of mastering the world, which directly affects the socialization of an individual at different stages of his development. The features of the influence of family myth as the initial form of personality mythologization on the formation of a teenager’s own myth are studied. The existence of such function as the mythologization of family stories and stories in the structure of personality consciousness determines the constructive or destructive possibilities of forming own image, and in general can affect the assimilation and use of basic behavioral patterns of personality. The role of an adolescent’s self-relation to the formation of a personal myth is clarified, which is expressed in the context of a person’s ideas about the content of the “Self” as a generalized sense of self. Adolescence is sensitive to the development of self-identity and the development of reflection as an indisputable thought process that is aimed at self-awareness, analysis and understanding of all components of a person’s life, which include: actions, speech, feelings, abilities, interpersonal relationships, character and so on. A generalized description of the components of the structure of mythological consciousness is provided: the awareness of attitudes, restructuring of stereotypes, reflexive ability, as a qualitatively new level of personality selfawareness, as a stage of growing up. The factors contributing to the formation of an effective personal myth, as well as the factors of the problem of formation of an effective personal myth among teens, are identified. It is shown that the existence of such a function as the mythologization of family stories and stories in the structure of family consciousness may be similar to the function of socio-cultural myth, expressed in a smaller format, which determines constructively or destructively the possibilities of forming someone’s own image, and in general can influence and cause the use of basic behavioral patterns of personality.

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