scholarly journals Understanding Veterans Through the Lens of Dialogical Psychology and Theology

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Jan Grimell
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory ◽  
Theory Framework

A dialogical self theory framework has shown to be a promising methodology in the pursuit of mapping and gridding the psychological topography among military personnel during transition from military to civilian life and thereby advance the understandings of self-identity work in the process. This article demonstrates this methodology through a case study example drawn from a longitudinal research project that followed nineteen Swedish service members with annual interviews over a three-year period as they transitioned to civilian life. This case study example evolves into a discussion about a potential vulnerability that may be inherit among service members with distinct religious/spiritual/ethical positions in the self when or if those I-positions perceive themselves to be violated as a result of military service. The implication of such violations or transgressions may result in a type of spiritual injury that disconnects the spiritual capacity of the self to varying degrees. It is proposed that such spiritual injury is typically followed by monologue instead of dialogue. Theological concepts of forgiveness and acceptance may gradually restore the dialogical capacity between a violated position(s) and a traumatized military position within the self. Acceptance and dialogical evolution may then begin to heal the spiritual damage.

scholarly journals Making dialogue with an existential voice in transition from military to civilian life

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 832-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Grimell
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory

Dialogical Self Theory has contributed to the endeavors to map and grid self-identity work in transition from military to civilian life throughout an empirical and longitudinal research project which focuses on existential dimensions. This article is based on a case study from this project and centers upon Sergeant Jonas, who, upon his return from deployment in Afghanistan, struggled with his transition as a new existential position was vocalized throughout the following annual interviews. This voice narrated feelings of meaninglessness, emptiness, and of having been deceived. In turn, this existential voice required an answer to a question which apparently had no answer. The meaning-making eventually evolved into an acceptance which enabled Jonas to proceed with his life. Dialogical processes between positions are important in order to go on with life amid existential concerns in the aftermath of military service since dialogicality of the self opens up a complex of dynamics of meaning-making processes, negotiations, and transformations. Based on the findings, it is suggested that the Personal Position Repertoire could potentially be strengthened by the addition of an internal existential position to its standard repertoire, at least when working with military personnel and/or veterans.

scholarly journals Advancing an understanding of the body amid transition from a military life

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Grimell ◽  
Mariecke van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Military Life ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Narrative Process ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory ◽  
The Military ◽  
Do So

In this article, we explore the process of transitions from a military life to a civilian life. Making use of the concepts offered by Dialogical Self Theory, we explore how individuals negotiate the acquisition of new, civilian identities by integrating different, sometimes conflicting, cultural I-positions. Moreover, in this article, we explore how this narrative process is reflected through embodied processes of becoming civilian. We do so by presenting an in-depth analysis of two case studies: that of former Lieutenant Peter, who fully transitions to civilian life, and of Sergeant Emma, who opts for a hybrid outcome, combining a civilian job with working as an instructor in the military. We will argue that the narrative and embodied process of transition are intertwined in self-identity work, and that attention to the specifics of this entanglement can be useful for professionals who counsel military personnel who transition to civilian life.

Parent and Grandparent Relationships in Emerging Adulthood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Pratt ◽  
M. Kyle Matsuba
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Family Development ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Theory Framework

Chapter 7 begins with an overview of Erikson’s ideas about intimacy and its place in the life cycle, followed by a summary of Bowlby and Ainsworth’s attachment theory framework and its relation to family development. The authors review existing longitudinal research on the development of family relationships in adolescence and emerging adulthood, focusing on evidence with regard to links to McAdams and Pals’ personality model. They discuss the evidence, both questionnaire and narrative, from the Futures Study data set on family relationships, including emerging adults’ relations with parents and, separately, with grandparents, as well as their anticipations of their own parenthood. As a way of illustrating the key personality concepts from this family chapter, the authors end with a case study of Jane Fonda in youth and her father, Henry Fonda, to illustrate these issues through the lives of a 20th-century Hollywood dynasty of actors.

scholarly journals Potential Risks to Hearing Functions of Service Members From Exposure to Jet Fuels

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Thais C. Morata ◽  
Michelle Hungerford ◽  
Dawn Konrad-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Processing ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Jet Fuel ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Jet Fuels ◽  
Industrial Chemicals ◽  
Nervous Function

Purpose Several military occupations, particularly those within the U.S. Air Force, require working with or around jet fuels. Jet fuels contain components that are known to affect central nervous function, yet effects of these fuels on auditory function, specifically auditory processing of sound, are not well understood at this time. Animal studies have demonstrated that exposure to jet fuels prior to noise exposure can exacerbate the noise exposure's effects, and service members exposed to jet fuels are at risk of noise exposure within their work environments. The purpose of this article was to give a brief synopsis of the evidence on the ototoxic effects due to jet fuel exposure to aid audiologists in their decision making when providing care for populations who are occupationally exposed to fuels or while during military service. Conclusions Exposure to jet fuels impacts central nervous function and, in combination with noise exposure, may have detrimental auditory effects that research has yet to fully explain. Additional longitudinal research is needed to explain the relationships, which have clinical implications for service members and others exposed to jet fuels. In the meantime, audiologists can gain useful information by screening for chemical exposures when obtaining patient case histories. If jet fuel exposure is suspected, the Lifetime Exposure to Noise and Solvents Questionnaire can be used to estimate a noise exposure ranking and identify other potentiating agents such as jet fuel and industrial chemicals. A history of jet fuel exposure should inform the selection of hearing tests in the audiometric evaluation and when devising the treatment plan.

Recognition gaps in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Elie Friedman
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Essential Aspect ◽  
Recognition Theory ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Relationship

This study identifies gaps in official discourse between recognition of the other as a nation and recognition of the other’s right to statehood within identity conflicts. Using as a case study the discourse of Israeli political leaders during three distinct periods from 1967 until the present, the study proposes analytical tools based on recognition theory to examine how the relationship between recognition of the other and constitution of the self impact recognition gaps. The study illustrates that partial recognition of the other — either affirmation of peoplehood coupled with denial of statehood or conversely affirmation of statehood coupled with denial of peoplehood — can result from an untenable view of self based on ontological dissonance. Recognition of the other is shown to be an essential aspect of self-constitution within the context of a transformation of self-identity towards an identity that frees itself of mastery over the other.

Early narcissistic transference patterns: An exploratory single case study from the perspective of dialogical self theory

2006 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Dimaggio ◽  
Donatella Fiore ◽  
Paul Henry Lysaker ◽  
Daniela Petrilli ◽  
Giampaolo Salvatore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory ◽  
Narcissistic Transference

The dialogical Self from the viewpoint of hermeneutic phenomenology

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitri Ginev
Keyword(s):  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory

This paper aims at rereading some tenets of dialogical Self theory in the perspective of hermeneutic phenomenology. It aims at radicalizing the tendency to the anti-Cartesian interpretation of the Self in this theory. The Self is conceived of in terms of an ecstatic unity of psychic subjectivity (as enabling the choices of possibilities) and trans-subjective configurations of practices. The existential possibilities are addressed as emerging from the appropriation of possibilities generated by configured practices. The Self exists in and through (and not behind) this transformation of trans-subjective possibilities into existential ones. The paper defends the situated transcendence of the Self’s existence within practices. This defense provides arguments against any approach assuming the existence of “punctual self”. From the viewpoint of hermeneutic phenomenology, the conceptualization of the dialogical Self must avoid any form of essentialism. This conceptualization is also at odds with assuming a kind of “transcendental ego” operating behind the Self’s pluralism of I-positions. The view of the Self as existing in and through the ongoing transformation of trans-subjective into existential possibilities admits that from the very outset the formation of the Self’s identities is predicated on the ecstatic unity of subjectivity and trans-subjectivity.

Racialised Inequality, Anti-Racist Strategies and the Workings of the ‘Dialogical Self’: A Case Study in the Shifting Construction of Migrant Identity in Ireland

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Coakley
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Specific Manifestation ◽  
Dialogic Interaction

The theory of the dialogical self understands that identity is constructed from a shifting pallet of ‘I’ voices, each created from the dialogic interaction that takes place between the individual subject ‘I’ and multiple ‘others’. These positions are changeable and identity space is constructed in each context, out of the interaction that takes place between a situationally specific manifestation of the self and an ‘other’, who is deemed to be important and worthy of note. This article engages with this conceptualisation in an effort to illustrate how some recent immigrants to Ireland internalise the experience of life in a new cultural contact zone, against a background penetrated by experiences of racialised othering. This takes many forms, but after these experiences are extracted from research participants’ narrative stories, individual immigrants are seen to harness a series of different positions in an effort to internalise the experience of this racialised discrimination and negotiate its place in their lives. Two particular strategies are adopted. Racialised discriminations are seen to be anchored in notions of human nature, broadly based. Immigrants use this conceptualisation to divorce the experience from their aspirations for their future life in Ireland. Equally, Immigrants are seen to switch ‘I’ positions laterally in order to defect the experience of exclusion. In so doing, potentially new and intersectional migrant identity spaces are created.

scholarly journals Association of Suicide Risk With Transition to Civilian Life Among US Military Service Members

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. e2016261
Author(s):  
Chandru Ravindran ◽  
Sybil W. Morley ◽  
Brady M. Stephens ◽  
Ian H. Stanley ◽  
Mark A. Reger
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Military Service Members ◽  
Transition To Civilian Life

Self in the mirror: Uniting occidental and oriental views

2020 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2095189
Author(s):  
Laura Røgild-Müller
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Inner Dialogue ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory

The self is a complex system that no human being can ignore and yet it is still incredibly abstract. The present paper will apply occidental as well as oriental perspectives in its study of the dynamic of the dialogical self. Inspired by the work of David. Y. F. Ho I take on the task of looking at myself in the mirror to study the aspects of inner dialogue. The analysis is done with integration of Dialogical Self Theory and Dialectic perspectives. Leading into an illustration of the dialogical nature of spirituality.

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