scholarly journals THE RECEPTION OF C.G. JUNG IN US DEATH AND DYING STUDIES

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-110
Author(s):  
Jelena Martinovic
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
William James ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
The United States ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead ◽  
Near Death Experience

C.G. Jung’s work has had a noticeable impact on conceptions about death and the dying experience, as well as on the therapeutic work methods that deal with anxiety, depression or terminal illnesses. This article analyses the reception of C.G. Jung’s work in the United States during the time period 1960-80. It examines ways in which Jung’s concepts were discussed and applied by psy practitioners who worked in fields related to death and dying studies (thanatology, palliative care, suicide and near- death studies). Following an examination of Jung’s ‘Americanisation’ in the 1950s and the reception of his commentaries on death, discussed in relation to the reception of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, I will analyse four examples: 1) a psychiatric interpretation of Jung’s account of a near- death experience and its comparison with William James’ mystical states of consciousness; 2) psychedelic therapies conducted with LSD, in which ‘symbolic dying processes’ are provoked; 3) suicide studies done on suicide survivors; 4) parapsychological investigation of near-death experience. The examples show that Jung’s work was pivotal, allowing psychologists to link it to concepts and approaches to terminal illness and positive or transpersonal psychology. Within the period under consideration, Jung’s reception has to be read and understood in relation to the more general reception of James’ work, in particular his psychology of religion. KEYWORDS William James, near-death experience, thanatology, palliative care, Tibetan Book of the Dead, LSD therapy, suicide studies, humanistic psychology

Progress and trends in the utilization and adoption of palliative care in patients with terminal gynecologic cancer in the United States: A study of 4,264 women.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 11606-11606
Author(s):  
Anthony Milki ◽  
Amandeep Kaur Mann ◽  
Daniel Stuart Kapp ◽  
John K. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Gynecologic Cancer ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cancer Type ◽  
Median Income ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Chi Squared

11606 Background: To determine the factors associated with the utilization of palliative care (PC) in patients with metastatic gynecologic cancer who died while hospitalized. Methods: Data were extracted from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database for patients with cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancers from 2005 to 2011. Chi-squared and logistic regression models were employed for statistical analyses. Results: Of 4264 women with gynecologic cancer, 983 (23.0%) utilized PC (median age: 66 years). 2633 (61.8%), 1034 (24.3%), and 597 (14.0%) patients had ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancer, respectively. The majority were white (57.9%), and the remainder were black (12.6%), Hispanic (7.8%), and Asian (3.1%). 24.9, 23.9, 23.6, and 25.2% were low, low-middle, middle-high, and high with respect to median income. Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance was found in 46.7, 10.8, and 37.6% of patients. 36.9, 21.0, 18.0, and 24.1% of patients were treated in hospitals in the South, West, Midwest, and Northeast. 11.3, 23.9, and 64.2% of patients were treated in small, medium, and large hospitals, designated as teaching (53.1%) and nonteaching (46.3%) institutions. The utilization of PC increased from 5.2% in 2005 to 30.4% in 2011. Older age (OR: 1.34; 95% CI: 1.10-1.64; P = 0.01), high SES (OR: 1.37; 95% CI: 1.09-1.72; P = 0.01), privately insured (OR: 1.81; 95% CI: 1.46-2.24; P < 0.001), treatment at Western (OR: 1.94; 95% CI: 1.56-2.41; P < 0.001) and Midwestern hospitals (OR: 1.43; 95% CI: 1.15-1.77; P = 0.001), and depression (OR: 1.34; 95% CI: 1.00-1.80; P = 0.05) were associated with higher PC use. However, race, cancer type, hospital teaching status, and hospital location were not associated with PC use. Conclusions: The use of inpatient palliative care has increased significantly over the study period. The lower utilization of palliative care for terminal illness associated with younger, lower socioeconomic status, Southern and smaller volume hospitals warrants further attention.

A 40-Year History of End-of-Life Offerings in US Medical Schools: 1975-2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 559-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Frequency Distributions

The purpose of this longitudinal study of US medical schools over a 40-year period was to ascertain their offerings on end-of-life (EOL) issues. At 5-year intervals, beginning in 1975, US medical schools were surveyed via a questionnaire to determine their EOL offerings. Data were reported with frequency distributions. The Institute of Medicine has encouraged more emphasis on EOL issues over the past 2 decades. Findings revealed that undergraduate medical students in the United States are now exposed to death and dying, palliative care, and geriatric medicine. The inclusion of EOL topics has definitely expanded over the 40-year period as findings reveal that US undergraduate medical students are currently exposed in over 90% of programs to death and dying, palliative care, and geriatric medicine, with the emphasis on these topics varying with the medical programs. Such inclusion should produce future favorable outcomes for undergraduate medical students, patients, and their families.

scholarly journals Liberation through Seeing: Screening The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Paul Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Buddhism ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Meaning And Purpose ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Book Of The Dead ◽  
Jacob's Ladder ◽  
Principle Source ◽  
Interpretive Frameworks

The text known in English as The Tibetan Book of the Dead is arguably the principle source for popular understandings of Tibetan Buddhist conceptions of death. First translated into English in 1927, subsequent translations have read it according to a number of interpretive frameworks. This paper examines two recent films that take The Tibetan Book of the Dead as their inspiration: Bruce Joel Rubin’s Jacob’s Ladder (1990) and Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void (2009). Neither of these films overtly claim to be depicting The Tibetan Book of the Dead, but the directors of both have acknowledged that the text was an influence on their films, and both are undeniably about the moment of death and what follows. The analysis begins with the question of how, and to what degree, each of the films departs from the meaning and purpose of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, before moving on to examine the reasons, both practical and ideological, for these changes. Buddhist writer Bruce Joel Rubin wrote a film that sought to depict the death experience from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, but ultimately audience expectation and studio pressure transformed the film into a story at odds with Tibetan Buddhism. Gaspar Noé wrote and directed a film that is based on a secular worldview, yet can be seen to be largely consistent with a Tibetan Buddhist reading. Finally, I consider if, and to what extent, these films function to express or cultivate an experiential engagement with Tibetan Buddhist truths and realization, concluding that Jacob’s Ladder does not, while Enter the Void largely succeeds, despite the intention of its creator.

A Figurational Approach: Views of Communication and Awareness of Death and Dying in Ireland

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Una Macconville ◽  
Regina McQuillan
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Radio Talk

Open awareness and communication in death and dying have become important aspects in caring for people who are terminally ill. This change began in the 1960s and has been driven by social and ideological factors, especially in highly individualistic societies such as the US and the UK. While this is the preferred interaction within palliative care, open awareness and communication about death and dying can be resisted in some societies where families seek to protect their relative from the truth of a terminal illness. This article considers some attitudes to open awareness and communication in Ireland from recent research and a popular radio talk programme. This suggests that while there is openness about issues of mortality in Ireland, there can be resistance when terminal illness becomes a reality within a family. Elias's figurational approach is utilised to understand these differing responses.

“All of a sudden, a lot less still makes it worthwhile to be alive:” Palliative care patients’ views on life

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Romotzky ◽  
Julia Strupp ◽  
Alexander Hayn ◽  
Jens Ulrich Rüffer ◽  
Judith Grümmer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Type Result ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The Moment ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Age Range

AbstractObjectiveWe aimed to elucidate the views on life as narrated by patients in palliative care (PC) to find out what patients deem to be essential in their life, whether something has changed concerning their view of life in light of the disease, and whether interviewees would like to give others something to take with them.MethodData were collected from narrative audio and video interviews with 18 inpatients in a specialized PC unit. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim and analyzed using qualitative content analysis applying MAXQDA software. CDs and DVDs with recorded interviews were provided to patients.ResultEighteen interviews were analyzed: 11 audio and 7 video recordings. The age range was 41–80 years. Patients reported on changes in their views on life. Despite it being a complex and painful process, patients still gave examples of benefits experienced during their illness trajectory. Patients identified resources and coping strategies such as meaningful contacts with close others and mindfulness. Shifts have occurred in terms of taking more time for themselves, enjoying the moment, being more calm, and spending more time with family and friends. What patients wanted to pass on to others was to pay attention to the needs of both the self and the others, shape your life individually, confront yourself early with issues of death and dying, and care for your fellow human beings. Patients and relatives valued the opportunity to keep their interview as a CD/DVD.Significance of resultsResults support the idea that many people facing terminal illness continue to focus on living and remain within their biographies and the contexts of their lives, even if their functional status declines. Patients and relatives appreciated that interviews were provided as kind of a legacy. Yet, more robust research is needed to decide whether such interviews yield any therapeutic effect.

Sky Ops Surprise

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Shawna Malvini Redden
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experience

Invoking the styling of classic spy stories, this essay provides an account of a commercial aviation emergency landing that blew the agent/author's “cover” as a full participant ethnographer. Using an experimental autoethnographic format, the piece offers an evocative portrayal of a perceived near-death experience and its aftermath, as well as critical commentary on writing autoethnography with a fictionalized framing. In the closing “debrief,” the author sheds her agent persona to describe the process of writing about traumatic events and to analyze how those events focus attention on methodological and ethical considerations for qualitative research.

Horror and Death: Rethinking Coco's Border Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Orquidea Morales
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
Walt Disney Company ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Border Politics ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The U.S

In 2013, the Walt Disney Company submitted an application to trademark “Día de los muertos” (Day of the Dead) as they prepared to launch a holiday themed movie. Almost immediately after this became public Disney faced such strong criticism and backlash they withdrew their petition. By October of 2017 Disney/Pixar released the animated film Coco. Audiences in Mexico and the U.S. praised it's accurate and authentic representation of the celebration of Day of the Dead. In this essay, I argue that despite its generic framing, Coco mobilizes many elements of horror in its account of Miguel's trespassing into the forbidden space of the dead and his transformation into a liminal figure, both dead and alive. Specifically, with its horror so deftly deployed through tropes and images of borders, whether between life and death or the United States and Mexico, Coco falls within a new genre, the border horror film.

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