4. Spiritual Suffering

2017 ◽  
pp. 72-88
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Suffering

scholarly journals Lyding

Curationis ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrika De Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Special Skill ◽  
Spiritual Suffering

Suffering as a concept lies beyond man's understanding although its experience is very real. Man may experience physical, psychological or spiritual suffering. A person can adapt to suffering negatively which may lead to complete psychological break-down. A positive attitude towards suffering implies accepting it and believing that it has a purpose. Suffering may then lead to spiritual growth and self-actualisation. The nurse’s role in supporting the suffering in thus to help the person to experience it positively and to use it constructively. This requires special skill, sensitivity and a strong faith.

scholarly journals A comprehensive approach in hospice shared care in Taiwan: Nonelderly patients have more physical, psychosocial and spiritual suffering

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 444-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu-Hsien Yang ◽  
Yu-Wen Chiu ◽  
Chia-Tsuan Huang ◽  
Yu-Wen Haung ◽  
Hung-Yi Chuang
Keyword(s):  
Shared Care ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Spiritual Suffering

“Dark Nights of the Soul”: Phenomenology and Neurocognition of Spiritual Suffering in Mysticism and Psychosis

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry T. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Body ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Dark Night ◽  
Ecological Self ◽  
General Dimension ◽  
Spiritual Suffering ◽  
Felt Presence

Phenomenological, clinical, and neurocognitive levels of analysis are combined to understand the cognitive bases of spirituality and spiritual suffering. In particular, the “dark night of the soul” in classical mysticism, with its painful “metapathological” loss of felt meaning is compared with the anhedonias central to the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and schizotypicality. Paul Schilder's early understanding of instabilities in the body image, as our core sense of self, offers a key to both the disorganized hallucinatory syndromes of psychosis and to the relative enhancements of body image/ecological self in spirituality. Expanded versus deleted felt presence/embodiment, as outwardly indexed in measures of physical balance and spatial abilities, becomes the general dimension underlying integrative versus disintegrative transformations of consciousness. “Dark night” suffering can be seen as a semantic satiation leading to a relative deletion of experienced presence in the context of its previous enhancement, a focalized version of the more general anhedonic despair shared by clinical schizotypy and aspects of a larger secularized culture.

Conflicts and con-fusions confounding compassion in acute care: Creating dialogical moral space

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Jones ◽  
Petra Strube ◽  
Marion Mitchell ◽  
Amanda Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Moral Space ◽  
A Value ◽  
Shared Understandings ◽  
Spiritual Suffering

Background: Compassion, understood as empathy for another who is experiencing physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual suffering, is an essential element of our shared understandings of nursing and the constitution of the professional nurse. Theoretical foundation: Charles Taylor account of ethics which concerns ‘what or who is it good to be’ rather than the predominant analytical moral philosophy approach which concentrates on ‘what ought one to do’ is the core concern of this discussion. An ontological appreciation of our shared human condition is the premise upon which the discussion is based. Discussion: This article proposes that concept by opening a dialogical space, nurses can engage in reflection and sense making wherein they explore individually and collectively the conflicts and confusions encountered in their day-to-day work. Through their dialogues, nurses – individually and collectively – orient and reorient themselves and each other towards what they see as meaningful and purposeful in their lives and in doing so they are well positioned to reaffirm their commitment to compassion as a value which both anchors and orients their day-to-day work. Implications: The provision of opportunities in the workplace, in the form of dialogue, to articulate often unspoken assumptions and frameworks in which nursing work is carried out can not only initiate the building of pathways of support but also assist nurses reaffirm their compassion – arguably the essence of their nursing practice.

scholarly journals Whāia Te Mauriora - In Pursuit of Healing: Theorising connections between soul healing, tribal self-determination and Māori suicide prevention in Aotearoa / New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Keri Lawson-Te Aho
Keyword(s):  
Major Trauma ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Trauma Narratives ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Spiritual Suffering ◽  
Physical Manifestation

<p>Māori suicide is theorised as an outcome of the wounding of the indigenous spirit as a result of complex trauma birthed during colonisation. The spirit is theorised as the place where trauma and suffering take root in whakapapa (kinship). Whakapapa is theorised as the mechanism by which spiritual affliction is transferred inter-generationally manifesting in physical outcomes within and between generations. Māori suicide is interpreted as the physical manifestation of spiritual wounds and spiritual wounding requires responses that ameliorate and heal spiritual suffering at the source. Therapies for soul healing are framed in context of indigenous self determination. This creates space to privilege healing traditions housed within cultural worldviews, practices and knowledge(s). This assumes an ability to reclaim traditional healing knowledge that works at a spiritual level. Whakapapa is theorised as the pathway by which profound healing of the wounded spirit can be achieved. In this research, connection to whakapapa and a full consciousness of the divine (mauri) inside all indigenous peoples that connects us with each other provides a source of healing of the spirit through balancing the spiritual and physical elements of human existence. In order to test the relationship between historical trauma and the outcomes of spiritual suffering 182 years of history were researched in one discrete tribal group. Using whānau narratives three major trauma acts were identified. The whānau identified historical trauma as having contemporary outcomes and consequences for whakapapa/kinship relationships. They found the analysis of historical trauma to be empowering, bringing forth revelation knowledge and explaining inter-generational suffering. The explanatory power of historical trauma/soul and spiritual wounding made sense to them experientially, intuitively and intellectually.  This PhD recommends healing methods (and pathways) for indigenous professionals and para-professionals working with extensive trauma in their communities. Trauma narratives are reframed as imperatives and opportunities for spiritual/soul healing.</p>

The Existential Dimension of Palliative Care: The Mirror Effect of Death on Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282095218
Author(s):  
Frédérique Drillaud ◽  
Camille Saussac ◽  
Florence Keusch ◽  
Danièle Lafaye ◽  
Hélène Bely ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Mirror Effect ◽  
Palliative Care Unit ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Existential Suffering ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Existential Dimension ◽  
Spiritual Suffering ◽  
Insight Into

The WHO has included the spiritual dimension in its definition of palliative care since 1990, but this dimension is frequently confused with notions of religion. Yet, the spiritual suffering experienced by palliative care patients is primarily a matter of existential suffering. The objective of this study was to examine the ways in which the existential dimension was manifested in the experiences of those present in a palliative care unit. This anthropological monograph was conducted in a palliative care unit in a French University Hospital. The existential dimension appears to reside in the connections between individuals and the proximity of death appears to shed new light on the meaning of life. The mirror effect of death on life, could serve to encourage greater appreciation of the value of our connections with others, and the desire to take care of others, which offers new insight into forms of solidarity and social organisation.

scholarly journals Does the spirituality of nurses interfere in the record of spiritual suffering diagnosis?

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Ienne ◽  
Rosa Aurea Quintella Fernandes ◽  
Ana Claudia Puggina
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
World Health ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Instrument ◽  
The World ◽  
Spiritual Suffering

Abstract Objectives: To assess the spirituality of nurses and relate it to personal characteristics, sector of activity, and spiritual practices; to analyze the influence of spirituality of nurses in the record of a "spiritual suffering" diagnosis. Methods: Quantitative cross-sectional study, using the World Health Organization's Quality of Life Instrument-Spirituality, Religion and Personal Beliefs Module (WHOQOL-SRPB). Results: 132 nurses were included and most of them were women (81.8%), married (56.8%), with an average age of 34 years (± 6.8). Most nurses believe in God or in a superior force (99.2%) and have never recorded a "spiritual suffering" diagnosis (78.8%). There was no association of spirituality with the sector of activity; the variable "marital status" was significant in six out of the eight factors of spirituality, and the variable "willingness to talk about spirituality" was significant in seven out of the eight factors. Conclusion: The spirituality of nurses does not interfere with the recording of a "spiritual suffering" diagnosis.

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