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The ‘self’
Published in Justin Amery, The Integrated Practitioner, 2022
However, for the sake of this book, please consider another solution. Perhaps the only rational answer to these infinitely regressing and circular questions is that in fact there is no self at all. Perhaps selfhood is just an illusion created by our awareness of our own awareness. In other words, it is a verb with no subject or object. There is no one being aware, and no one who is being the subject of awareness.
Aging, remixed
Published in Lester D. Friedman, Therese Jones, Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, 2022
Why “resemblage?” The portmanteau reflects a creative mingling of resemblance, assemblage, and age, each key words for this intergenerational digital storytelling project. To resemble means to liken or sense similarity. Resemblance does not imply sameness or the flattening of difference, variation, and the dissimilar, instead: resemblance emerges when we assemble what is found or what can be shared for a moment in time, amid the abundance of bodies and things. Gender, race, ethnicity, class, ability, geography, citizenship, and migration all generate assemblages of selfhood that alter and reorganize our identity over the life course. The Resemblage Project thus responds to the need for stories of aging that reflect profound difference; yet, for all the particularities of personal experience, aging is also a kind of universalizing process. In this collection of digital stories, grandchildren and grandparents, educators and students, arts and sciences, activism and academia intermingle to yield new ways of seeing the world, while sensing how distinct aging experiences can involve the possibility of shared collective action.
Toward a Cultural Psychology of African Americans
Published in Walter J. Lonner, Dale L. Dinnel, Deborah K. Forgays, Susanna A. Hayes, Merging Past, Present, and Future in Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2020
In U.S. society, control is a defining property of wellbeing. In McDougall’s (1921) description of the races of Europe, “will” and “introversion” were positive properties, and “extraversion” and “gregariousness” were negative. Self-Actualization implies that the pinnacle of selfhood can be achieved through personal agency. Those who fail to accomplish this actualized state may be thought of as “pawns” rather than “origins” (DuCharms, 1966), or external as opposed to internal in their locus of control (Rotter 1966), or field dependent rather than field independent (Witkin et al, 1962). Moreover, research shows that having control can confer better physical health among nursing home patients (Langer & Rodin, 1976), or that the illusion of control can cause people to overvalue things over which such control is exerted like playing bingo cards (Langer 1983).
Werewolves and Two-Headed Monsters: An Exploration of Coping, Sharing, and Processing of Premenstrual Distress Among Individuals With PMDD on an Anonymous Internet Message Board
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2023
Autumn Winslow, Laura Hooberman, Lisa Rubin
Language, including many metaphors, used throughout posts suggests that some participants in this community make sense of their experiences through conceptualizing their PMDD as a separate self-state compared to their everyday self. Bromberg (1996) has illustrated how relational circumstances of recognition and disconfirmation can result in multiple self-states becoming dissociated from an integrated experience of one’s self, so as to preserve relational ties. In this context, the act of splitting off an aspect of one’s bodily and emotional life as “not-self” can serve a function in order to cope with aspects of selfhood that may feel threatening or incongruent with everyday life and relationships. Further, the stigmatized nature of menstrual-related experiences, as well as the potential for women’s pain to be minimized in medical settings (Hoffmann & Tarzian, 2001), further creates an incentive for individuals to split off these aspects of self, allowing for the possible avoidance of shame or other negative emotional states.
Reconciling Demonically-Monstrous Self-Images in Those Labeled as Sex Offenders
Published in Art Therapy, 2023
Bani Malhotra, David E. Gussak
Individuals who sexually offend are seen as monsters, and such internalized demonic self- and assigned- perceptions affects a person’s selfhood. Exploring how these internalized labels affects a person’s journey toward transitioning to the community is important in the therapeutic context. The themes uncovered in this clinical reflection suggest the role of imagery in individual and group processing of demonic self-representations and its key role in initiating first step toward reconciliation. Through an inclusive and collaborative approach, the shadow art therapy session facilitated a dialogue beyond scapegoating to responsibly examine internalized demonic identities by those who sexually offend. This case demonstrates how future art therapy directives focused on the use of metaphorical expression may underscore and reveal important and overlooked self-perceptions with this population.
A Phenomenological Understanding of Mental Health Nurses’ Experiences of Self-Care: A Review of the Empirical Literature
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2022
Maria O’Malley, Brenda Happell, James O’Mahony
Ultimately the aim of the study is to arrive at the essence of the lived experience of mental health nurses’ self-care at work. It was therefore appropriate to adopt a phenomenological lens to review the empirical literature available. Phenomenology’s area of enquiry is that of the experiences of individuals within their “life-worlds” with roots in both philosophy and psychology. If we can accept that people are engaged in the world in an embodied, interpersonal, affective and moral manner (Smith & Shinebourne, 2012), viewing the available literature from this stance assists in uncovering emerging themes. Therefore, the themes are organised within phenomenological concerns, firstly of selfhood—how the experience affects one’s sense of self, one’s identity and agency. As selfhood is influenced by mood and embodiment, sociality and relatedness, temporality, spatiality, and nursing culture. These are considered in order of significance as guided by the literature findings.