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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Modes of being"”.
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Therapy-in-the-world: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of accessible self-therapeutic modes of being
… its participants. It uses the existential idea of being-in-the-world as a lens through which to view the phenomenon of people’s self-therapeutic experiences outside formalised therapeutic or self-help practices. The study finds that worlded self-therapy, or ‘therapy-in-the-world’, can be …
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Therapy-in-the-world: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of accessible self-therapeutic modes of being
… its participants. It uses the existential idea of being-in-the-world as a lens through which to view the phenomenon of people’s self-therapeutic experiences outside formalised therapeutic or self-help practices. The study finds that worlded self-therapy, or ‘therapy-in-the-world’, can be …
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Reconsidering Sen’s “development as freedom” through a black existentialist lens
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The issue of development is both an economic and an ethical question, concerning what constitutes a good life. However, traditional economics has solely answered this question in terms of quantitative ideals measured by utilitarian metrics of capital. That is to say that what we …
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Integrating the mind and the body: examining the role of counselling psychology for individuals with physical health problems
Finding meaning when facing a diagnosis of advanced cancer can be an important part of an individual’s experience as they face the reality of their death. Spirituality has frequently been cited as an important source of meaning, yet there lacks a consensus over what this term actually means. …
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Heidegger's Hermeneutic Phenomenology and the Application to Ghanaian Women's Experiences of Unsuccessful Invitro Fertilisation (IVF) Treatment
… It appears that the concept and meanings of infertility is inadequately explored from the perspective of women experiences following unsuccessful invitro fertilisation treatment. In particular, it is vital to be knowledgeable about the challenges women encounter when undergoing IVF …
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A room of one's own, revisited: An existential-hermeneutic study of female solitude
… presents an existential-hermeneutic analysis of nine women's first-person accounts of extended periods of solitude. The accounts were analyzed along the five existential dimensions of spatiality, temporality, embodiment, language, and co-existentiality, producing a rich portrait of the women's …
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The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music
… music. In exploring the subject of tone presence, I rethink notions of “pitch structure” in post-tonal theory and offer an alternative that focuses on the question of what it is to be a musical interval for experience, drawing on a wide range of research from social theory, …
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Feasting on Whispers: Life Writing Towards a Pedagogy of Kinship
This work of life writing seeks to question the overpowering myths of progress, competition and domination that continue to story the educational landscape. In exploring the possibilities of metaphor as a possible response to these dominant myths, this collection of narrative and poetic pieces …
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ST(ILL) SOUNDS: WAVES OF SOUND, HEALTH, AND THE CHOREOGRAPHIC PROCESS
st(ill) sounds: waves of sound, health, and the choreographic process, explores the intersections of sound, healthcare, choreography, and dance performance. The research draws upon psychology, physical and cognitive science, visual art, technology, linguistics, and cripistemologies. Central to the …
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Hombres Normativos: The Creation and Inculcation of Martial Masculinity during the Franco Regime in Spain (1939—1975)
… the Franco dictatorships construction of normative masculinity through mandatory military service in Spain from 1939—1975. As part of the regime's efforts to normalize its version of Spanish nationalism, it institutionalized a militarized masculinity in the armed forces. For its …
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Otium
… investigations entwine to compose a plane of immanence where various concepts are rhizomatically juxtaposed. Theories of consciousness are studied in connection to the forces that surveil the will to life, palpable as well as imperceptible authoritarian powers that enframe and inform human …
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From "sad black stories" to "useful tragedy": Trajectories of hope in Johannesburg from Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 to Perfect Hlongwane's Jozi
… in contemporary Johannesburg, when the horizons of expectation for the present seem to have collapsed? This question informs this dissertation's engagement with Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 and Perfect Hlongwane's Jozi. The dissertation positions itself within the field of Johannesburg studies. It …
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Is it Psychosomatic? - An Inquiry into the Nature and Role of Medical Concepts
Medical diagnoses define the possible modes of being ill from the medical point of view. Medical diagnoses are theoretical concepts that gain their meaning as a part of the prevailing medical theory. As medical theories change over time, also medical concepts change, as can be seen in the long …
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Paths with heart : transformative journeys in the imaginal realm
… investigation into the lived experience of, and interpersonal and intrapersonal processes involved in transformative learning in primarily affective and imaginal modes of being. Through the lens of an extended epistemology, my inquiry challenges assumptions that critical-thinking and …
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Unfolding time : a projective model for the moving image
… events happening in time has spawned a lineage of moving-image transcription systems, from early cinematographs to contemporary digital camcorder equipment. These technologies have arisen, however, amongst a setting of concentrated discourse surrounding the nature of what it means to exist as a …
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Virtual Worldmaking: A Phantasmal Media Approach to VRChat
… thesis analyzes how the systemic proliferation of the “anime girl” avatar in the social VR platform VRChat reflects gendered biopolitics of power and control. Positioning contemporary social VR at a unique moment of media convergence and sociopolitical unrest, this thesis argues for more …
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<em>¡¿Y Que?!</em>: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture
… for navigating the intercultural experiences of Latinxs living in the U.S. and beyond. Subcultures like punk, goth, and Morrissey fandom are zones of contact and crossover, spaces where Latinxs world-travel and engage in the project of questioning dominant values of U.S. culture and also …
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Intensive care nurses? experiences of death in the ICU and the implications for postgraduate nursing pedagogy: a Heideggerian phenomenological study
Intensive care nurses’ experiences of death in the ICU and the implications for a postgraduate nursing pedagogy: A Heideggerian phenomenological study.The study sought to understand the phenomenon of the experiences of ICU nurses dealing with the deaths of patients under their care who die in the …
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Is it Worth the shot? Ontario Women's Negotiations of Risk, Gender and the Human Papillomavirous(HPV) Vaccine
… how women in Ontario negotiated the concepts of “risk” and “gender” deployed in pharmaceutical marketing and public health programming, and how they folded these mediations into decision making about the vaccine. Eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork revealed that the federal and Ontario …
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Performative autobiography as design attitude : the Merz-World of Kurt Schwitters
At the end of the First World War, middle class bourgeois Kurt Schwitters retreated into his studio in Hanover to literally nail together the ruins of a world that had fallen to pieces. In doing so, he produced one of the most controversial works of the early 20th century artistic avant-garde, the …
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