scholarly journals Living beyond the Unanticipated Sudden Death of a Partner: A Phenomenological Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin L. Rodger ◽  
Patricia Sherwood ◽  
Moira O'Connor ◽  
Gavin Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
The World

This research project explored grief and its impact upon men and women who have experienced the sudden and unanticipated death of his or her partner. It included what grief meant to them, how it was manifested in his or her everyday lives and how his or her partner's death had impacted upon his or her relationship with themselves, with others and the world. A Husserlian phenomenological approach was used to explore the experiences of the ten women and five men whose partner had died up to five years prior to being interviewed. The need for the surviving partner to continue to participate in everyday life placed great strain upon the internal resources of the surviving partner. The surviving partner needed to reinvent him or herself, in an attempt to become independent and regain functionality, whilst dealing with the sadness and loss that they had experienced. The surviving partner discovered that a new life order emerged that included hope, optimism, planning for the future and perhaps the prospect of a new relationship. The death of a partner left the surviving partner with a loss that would always be a part of them, with the memories of his or her relationship being maintained within them that will never be replaced by somebody else. The results of this research project reinforce the need for ongoing education of the community in grief and bereavement issues in order to increase the awareness of the support needs of the bereaved person. The length of time and amount of energy required to incorporate the experience into the survivor's life, is greatly underestimated by the community, and perhaps by some of the health and caring professionals. Colonial and hospital based bereavement support services need to be established and be proactive using outreach programs, actively offering the suddenly bereaved partner and family support and information.

scholarly journals Experiences of mothers of disabled children: a phenomenological study

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Angélica Marcheti Barbosa ◽  
Massae Noda Chaud ◽  
Maria Magda Ferreira Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
The World ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Impact

OBJECTIVE: To unveil the experiences of mothers of disabled children, with a view to understand the meaning of that experience. METHODS: This is a qualitative study using phenomenological approach based on Heidegger. The study subjects were five mothers with a disabled child. The interviews were performed at the women's homes, guided by the question "To you, what does it mean to have a disabled child? RESULTS: Five categories came into focus: "meeting one's actual infant," "the impact of disability," "treading a new path with one's disabled child," "experiencing maternal altruism in the care of the disabled child," and "altering one's family daily life." CONCLUSIONS: The discourses revealed emotionally moved beings experiencing a painful, sorrowful manner of being-in-the-world. Mothers find themselves unprepared to deal with the experience of having a disabled child, though perceiving the situation as an opportunity for self-encounter. Changes occurred to the couple's dynamics and family members became distant. When seeking guidance from health professionals, the mothers failed to find the necessary support.

scholarly journals Children's Embodied Voices: Approaching Children's Experiences Through Multi-Modal Interviewing

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Body Movement ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Van Manen ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Children’S Voices

This article focuses on a multi-modal interview approach that has been developed as part of a research project. The goal of the research was to explore and better understand children's embodied experiences and expressions in movement. The multi-modal interview approach emphasizes the non-verbal, giving children an opportunity to focus on "the felt sense" (Gendlin, 1983), and to express their experiences in a variety of forms and through the use of metaphors (Egan, 1997; Gendlin, 1983, 1997). Inspired by Arnold Mindell's (1985) work on shifting channels in our ways of experiencing the world, this paper works with an adaptation of Eugene T. Gendlin's "focusing technique" one that significantly expands Gendlin's repertoire of modalities by using drawing, colours, words, sound, music and movement. Narratives have been created using children's voices and expressions. The article includes an example of a narrative that illustrates how the approach has helped children express their movement experiences. The narrative is analysed by means of a hermeneutic phenomenological approach (van Manen, 1990), through which themes/lived meanings of the child's experiences are elucidated. The article closes with a discussion of how the multi-modal interview approach can help to cast light on the relationships between body, movement, and language, and how the approach could also inspire a somatic perspective when teaching movement and dance in schools.

scholarly journals Streger på Nattehimlen: Om subjektivitet og fiktion i antropologisk analyse

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Line Dalsgård
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Female Sterilization ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Literary Writing

Artiklen bygger på en undersøgelse af kvindelig sterilisation i Nordøstbrasilien, udført i årene 1997-2000. Studiet er publiceret i bogen Matters of Life and Longing (2004). I en refleksion over dette arbejde argumenterer jeg for, at skønlitterær tekst – inklusive forestillingerne om den Andens aldrig helt tilgængelige subjektivitet – kan udgøre et fænomenologisk studie i sig selv og indgå som eksperiment i den antropologiske analyse. Forsøget på at skrive den Andens subjektive verden frem lægger de formodede forbindelser blot, som binder antropologens observationer og fornemmelser af hende sammen. Uden en sådan blotlæggelse vil antropologen naivt kunne fortsætte sit arbejde, som havde intet spring udi gætværk fundet sted. Dette er imidlertid ikke muligt, når gætværket gøres så tydeligt, som det gøres i beskrivelsen af den Andens tanker og følelser. Skønt denne artikel fokuserer specifikt på den antropologiske brug af fænomenologisk analyse, mener jeg, at en naiv indstilling til den Anden er en potentiel risiko i enhver antropologisk analyse, som tager „det indfødte synspunkt“ som sit udgangspunkt. Samtidig må man spørge, hvad alternativet til dette udgangspunkt er. Risikerer vi ikke at forblive selvcentrerede og irrelevante, hvis vi ikke strækker os ud mod det fremmede? Min konklusion i denne artikel er i hvert fald (skønt anderledes udtrykt): Hellere springe ud i gætværket med åbne øjne end at forblive ligeglad med verden. Søgeord: Subjektivitet, skønlitterær tekst, moderskab, motivation, fænomenologi, metode. This article draws on a study of female sterilization in Northeast Brazil, carried out between 1997-2000 and published in 2004. Reflecting upon her previous work the author argues that literary writing, including assumptions on the never fully comprehensible subjectivity of the Other, may be a phenomenological study in itself and a helpful method in anthropology. Writing forth the subjectivity of one’s interlocutor lays bare the associations, which tie together the anthropologist’s observations and sensations of the Other’s – presumed – inner world. Without such an exposure the anthropologist may naively continue her work, as if no leap into guesswork had taken place. Despite focusing particularly on the anthropological use of the phenomenological approach, the author finds this potential naivety in any anthropological analysis that takes the “native’s point of view” into consideration. On the other hand, the risk of being self-centered and irrelevant may be the only alternative. Hence, the conclusion of this article, though differently expressed, is: Better leap with open eyes than stay indifferent to the world. Keywords: subjectivity, literary writing, motherhood, motivation, phenomenology, method 

Erfahrung ohne Erfahrenden

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Petr Kouba
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Individual Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
Individual Existence ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Intentional Structure

This article examines the limits of Heidegger’s ontological description of emotionality from the period of Sein und Zeit and Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik along the lines outlined by Lévinas in his early work De l’existence à l’existant. On the basis of the Lévinassian concept of “il y a”, we attempt to map the sphere of the impersonal existence situated out of the structured context of the world. However the worldless facticity without individuality marks the limits of the phenomenological approach to human existence and its emotionality, it also opens a new view on the beginning and ending of the individual existence. The whole structure of the individual existence in its contingency and finitude appears here in a new light, which applies also to the temporal conditions of existence. Yet, this is not to say that Heidegger should be simply replaced by Lévinas. As shows an examination of the work of art, to which brings us our reading of Moravia’s literary exposition of boredom (the phenomenon closely examined in Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik), the view on the work of art that is entirely based on the anonymous and worldless facticity of il y a must be extended and complemented by the moment in which a new world and a new individual structure of experience are being born. To comprehend the dynamism of the work of art in its fullness, it is necessary to see it not only as an ending of the world and the correlative intentional structure of the individual existence, but also as their new beginning.

ANALYSIS OF THE COMPETITIVE ACTIVITIES OF THE WORLD STRONGEST BELT WRESTLERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
Mariya Sedunova ◽  
Liliya Konovalova
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
World Championship ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Competitive Activity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Competitive Activities ◽  
Distinguishing Features

International potential and consequent greater competition in belt wrestling increase the significance of assessing quantitative and qualitative indicators of competitive activity of the strongest wrestlers in the world. It is important to identify the sport development trends and to search for effective ways and tools for achievement of the sport excellence. Purpose: to reveal the features of efficient competitive activities of the world leading wrestlers on the basis of analysis of group differences in technical and tactical excellence indicators. Materials and methods of research. We analyzed videos of 285 events with participation of 197 wrestlers competing at the Belt Wrestling World Championship 2019 in Kazan. We registered the following indicators of competitive activity: the total and average number of fighting techniques, including techniques executed to the right and to the left side within 4 minutes of combat; number and types of technical actions of competition winners among men and women. Research results and discussion. The paper focuses on the comparative analysis of technical and tactical skills of men and women, the winners of the Belt Wrestling World Championship. The research revealed distinguishing features of the winner’s technical toolkit including the diversity of technical and tactical actions, a balance in the knowledge of the right and left-handed techniques. At the same time, the analysis of technical and tactical actions in women wrestling shows the backlog of female athletes in these components of technical fitness.

Dracula

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bram Stoker
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Electric Light

‘It was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam.’ Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London, the very heart of the British Empire. Only a handful of men and women stand between Dracula and his long-cherished goal, but they are vulnerable and weak against the cunning and supernatural powers of the Count and his legions. As the horrifying story unfolds in the diaries and letters of young Jonathan Harker, Lucy, Mina, and Dr Seward, Dracula will be victorious unless his nemesis Professor Van Helsing can persuade them that monsters still lurk in the era of electric light. The most famous of all vampire stories, Dracula is a mirror of its age, its underlying themes of race, religion, science, superstition, and sexuality never far from the surface. A compelling read, rattling along at break-neck speed, it is a modern classic. This new edition includes Stoker's companion piece, ‘Dracula's Guest’.

Becoming Family Centered: Child Welfare's Challenge

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Family Preservation ◽  
Family Preservation Services ◽  
Child Welfare Agencies ◽  
Welfare Agencies ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Family Support Services

The author discusses current challenges to increasing family-centered practice within child welfare agencies. The article focuses on two issues: (1) child welfare's collaboration with early-intervention and family-support services and (2) maintaining family-preservation services despite growing criticism of such services.

Does Poverty Wear a Woman's Face? Some Moral Dimensions of a Transnational Feminist Research Project

Hypatia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison M. Jaggar
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Research ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
Moral Argumentation ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Dimensions

This article explains some moral dimensions of a transnational feminist research project designed to provide a better standard or metric for measuring poverty across the world. The author is an investigator on this project. Poverty metrics incorporate moral judgments about what is necessary for a decent life, so justifying metrics requires moral argumentation. The article clarifies the moral aspects of poverty valuation, indicates some moral flaws in existing global poverty metrics, and outlines some conditions for a better global metric. It then explains the methodology used in our project, providing its moral rationale and discussing some remaining moral concerns.

scholarly journals ‘Somebody stuck me in a bag of sand’: Lived experiences of the altered and uncomfortable body after stroke

2021 ◽  
pp. 026921552110007
Author(s):  
Hannah Stott ◽  
Mary Cramp ◽  
Stuart McClean ◽  
Ailie Turton
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Personal Perceptions ◽  
Psychological Sense ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

Objective: This study explored stroke survivors’ experiences of altered body perception, whether these perceptions cause discomfort, and the need for clinical interventions to improve comfort. Design: A qualitative phenomenological study. Setting: Participants’ homes. Participants: A purposive sample of 16 stroke survivors were recruited from community support groups. Participants (median: age 59; time post stroke >2 years), were at least six-months post-stroke, experiencing motor or sensory impairments and able to communicate verbally. Interventions: Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were analysed using an interpretive phenomenological approach and presented thematically. Results: Four themes or experiences were identified: Participants described (1) a body that did not exist; (2) a body hindered by strange sensations and distorted perceptions; (3) an uncontrollable body; and (4) a body isolated from social and clinical support. Discomfort was apparent in a physical and psychological sense and body experiences were difficult to comprehend and communicate to healthcare staff. Participants wished for interventions to improve their comfort but were doubtful that such treatments existed. Conclusion: Indications are that altered body perceptions cause multifaceted physical and psychosocial discomfort for stroke survivors. Discussions with patients about their personal perceptions and experiences of the body may facilitate better understanding and management to improve comfort after stroke.

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