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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Healer"”.
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The Healer: a Fantasy Novel
This thesis is two thirds of a fantasy novel, The Healer. The novel is about a girl, Winter, who becomes a bridge between various cultures. She leaves the culture of her childhood and becomes completely at home with the native population of the planet on which she lives. In the conclusion of the …
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The paradox of the 'wounded healer'
… of work related to the paradox of the ‘wounded healer’. It aims to reflect my journey as a practitioner-researcher. The different pieces show different aspects of this journey. The portfolio contains an original piece of research, an advanced client study and process report and thirdly a journal …
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Confusing culture for clinic: Indigenous shaman-healer as psychopathology
… commonly associated with indigenous shaman-healers might be associated with mental illness by western psychiatry. This out-dated western ethnocentric ideology is currently active as a diagnostic entry 3.8 Shamanic Crisis within the American Psychiatric Association's, 1994 Diagnostic …
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Motherland: Country of the Healer, Country of the Healed
… and exhibition, Motherland: Country of the Healer, Country of the Healed, this paper contextualizes Motherland, a 66” x 66” hand embroidery on Belgian linen that evolved from a growing body of vision drawings, small gouache and graphite compositions sketched intuitively after meditation, as …
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Christ our healer : a constructive dialogue between John Calvin and Gregory of Nazianzus.
Metaphors of disease and healing for sin and salvation have not received much attention in contemporary confessional Reformed circles. This dissertation takes a preliminary step towards a Reformed catholic understanding of these metaphors by evaluating their use by John Calvin and Gregory of …
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Wounded-healer healing: a first-person narrative inquiry into wounds as places of learning
… and the idea of providing ‘hospitality’ as a healer is explored as part of my professional practice as a coach. In this capacity, I identify myself as a wounded-healer. I also explore such wounded-healer moments in my role as a friend, family member and partner in my personal life. As such, …
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Healing the Healer: Exploring UK-based doctors’ and nurses’ nutrition and dietary behaviours within the workplace
Medical doctors and nurses (DNs) play a crucial role in the National Health Service (NHS), but their occupational demands can negatively affect their health. Shift work, common in the medical field, has been linked to various health issues for DNs, including sleep disturbances, weight gain, …
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Applying Attachment Theory and the Wounded Healer Hypothesis to Clinical Psychology and Mental Health Counseling Graduate Students
The personal characteristics of the therapist are strongly associated with therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome. Since treatment techniques are often shown to be equally effective, differential outcomes may be attributed to the therapist's early experiences and personality features. The …
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Dogs as Healers: Explorations of How Dogs Promote Healing and Their Role as Healers
… include dogs in our descriptions of who are healers. Rather, healers are mainly considered to be healthcare professionals such as doctors and nurses. In this thesis, I aim to understand what a healer is and who is a healer, thus expanding who can be a healer to dogs. To do this I explore dogs …
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Food as helper, food as healer: How Cree Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices and the implications for Indigenous food sovereignty
… understand food to be sacred, and moreover, a healer. This qualitative study, grounded in Indigenous research methodologies, sought to investigate the role of food in Cree culture, through understanding how Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices. Using metaphor to make …
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The limits of myth and place in J.M. Synge's "Deirdre of the sorrows" and Brian Friel's "Faith healer".
… Deirdre of the Sorrows and Brian Friel's Faith Healer. In Deirdre of the Sorrows, I argue that Synge remythologizes the Irish Deirdre myth in such a way that intends to remove fantastic elements from the tale. As he does so, he replaces the sentimental with characters that attribute enormous …
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The role of CD4+T cells in host protective responses against cutaneous Leishmaniasis using genome-wide transcriptomics.
… the absence or presence of IL-4Rα signaling. Non-healer BALB/c mice with a deletion of the IL-4Rα on all cells (IL-4Rα-/-) or CD4+ T cells only (iLCKcreIL-4Rαlox/-) and their controls (wild-type (WT) C57BL/6, WT BALB/c and littermate IL-4Rαlox/-) were subcutaneously infected with L. major. As …
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Masks of the Dark Goddess in Arthurian Literature: Origin and Evolution of Morgan le Fay
… Queen in her own right, wicked sorceress, and healer. Using both Post-Colonial and Feminist lenses, this study focuses on the origin and evolution of the Arthurian character Morgan le Fay, analyzing how the shift from a Pre-Christian Celtic oral culture to a Christian literate one impacted the …
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More than Words, More than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women and Healing Pedagogies
… should be recognized respectively as wounded healers and healing narratives. By situating my study within links among trauma, women, and writing, I argue that women and their personal stories of trauma exist in marginal, or rather, wounded positions. I problematize scholarship where links …
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Assessing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Resources to Develop a Sustainable Management Plan for the Lokaro Reserve in Southeast, Madagascar
… three local experts (an ombiasa, a traditional healer) and two material healers who identified four distinct vegetation communities within the Reserve (lowland forest, higher forest, grassland, and rocky coast). I collected herbarium specimens and identified all plant species found in the four …
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Assessing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Resources to Develop a Sustainable Management Plan for the Lokaro Reserve in Southeast, Madagascar
… three local experts (an ombiasa, a traditional healer) and two material healers who identified four distinct vegetation communities within the Reserve (lowland forest, higher forest, grassland, and rocky coast). I collected herbarium specimens and identified all plant species found in the four …
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Spiritual healing in search of an identity: analysis of spiritual healers’ own accounts of healing in Britain from 1900 to 1965
… 1900 and 1965. By focusing on the spiritual healers themselves and their own personal written accounts of healing, it is possible to gain an ‘insider’ view of what was considered at the time to be a non-standard activity and, in the majority of cases, a direct threat to orthodox medical and …
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A phenomenological exploration into the personal experience and impact of therapist self-disclosure on the therapist
… too (therapists) in their position as a ‘wounded healer’ (Jung, 1993) receive some relief, benefits, or discomforts to themselves regarding their unresolved deficits, traumas and emotional injuries as a result of their shared self-disclosures. Researching this topic highlighted a potential gap in …
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