The conflict between mind and body – the case of Mrs. R.

Physiotherapy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Stępień ◽  
Sylwia Chładzińska-Kiejna ◽  
Katarzyna Salamon-Krakowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalizations ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Memory Awareness ◽  
And Control

AbstractDissociative psychopathology is understood as an immature defence mechanism of personality, based on the techniques of reality distortion. The natural cause of a disorder reflects the lack of sense of coherence between identity, memory, awareness, perception and consequently - goal orientated action. Its symptoms manifest the separation of emotions, thoughts and behaviours bound with an event in order to maintain an illusory sense of control of demanding and unbearable experience.We describe the case of a 57-year-old woman suffering from broad range of dissociative symptoms from early childhood. Decomposition of integrity between memories, a sense of self-identity and control of the body has become the cause of numerous suicide attempts, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and not fully effective therapy attempts. Destructive influence of psychopathological symptoms negatively influenced patient’s life course, decisions made as well as family, work and social life.

scholarly journals The hamster wheel: a case study on embodied narrative identity and overcoming severe obesity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Natvik ◽  
Målfrid Råheim ◽  
Randi Sviland
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Weight Loss Surgery ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Body ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Severely Obese ◽  
Eating Practices ◽  
And Control

AbstractBased in narrative phenomenology, this article describes an example of how lived time, self and bodily engagement with the social world intertwine, and how our sense of self develops. We explore this through the life story of a woman who lost weight through surgery in the 1970 s and has fought against her own body, food and eating ever since. Our narrative analysis of interviews, reflective notes and email correspondence disentangled two storylines illuminating paradoxes within this long-term weight loss process. Thea’s Medical Weight Narrative: From Severely Obese Child to Healthy Adult is her story in context of medicine and obesity treatment and expresses success and control. Thea’s Story: The Narrative of Fighting Weight is the experiential story, including concrete examples and quotes, highlighting bodily struggles and the inescapable ambiguity of being and having one’s body. The two storylines coexist and illuminate paradoxes within the weight loss surgery narrative, connected to meaningful life events and experiences, eating practices and relationships with important others. Surgery was experienced as lifesaving, yet the surgical transformation did not suffice, because it did not influence appetite or, desire for food in the long run. In the medical narrative of transforming the body by repair, a problematic relationship with food did not fit into the plot.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Mind-Body Dualism and Personal Values

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Gunne Grankvist ◽  
Petri Kajonius ◽  
Bjorn Persson
Keyword(s):  
Personal Values ◽  
Mental States ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Dualists view the mind and the body as two fundamental different “things”, equally real and independent of each other. Cartesian thought, or substance dualism, maintains that the mind and body are two different substances, the non-physical and the physical, and a causal relationship is assumed to exist between them. Physicalism, on the other hand, is the idea that everything that exists is either physical or totally dependent of and determined by physical items. Hence, all mental states are fundamentally physical states. In the current study we investigated to what degree Swedish university students’ beliefs in mind-body dualism is explained by the importance they attach to personal values. A self-report inventory was used to measure their beliefs and values. Students who held stronger dualistic beliefs attach less importance to the power value (i.e., the effort to achieve social status, prestige, and control or dominance over people and resources). This finding shows that the strength in laypeople’s beliefs in dualism is partially explained by the importance they attach to personal values.</p>

scholarly journals Exile and the Disabled Body in Randa Jarrar’s “The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Zelwa the Halfie”

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Shahd Alshammari
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Body ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Transgenerational Trauma ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Mind

This paper seeks to analyse the notion of exile as one of paradox, of being both within and without, as a disconnect between the mind and body. Edward Said has noted that exile is “strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience”. Said’s suggestion of a mind/body split gives us room to consider the sense of self as already in-between, as the exiled ‘I’ attempts to find a home within a new land and a new body. Exile from one’s own homeland is also exile from one’s body in Arab-American author’s Randa Jarrar’s latest novel Him, Me, and Muhamad Ali (2016). The collection of stories moves away from reclamatory approaches to ethnic identity and examines the characters’ trajectories of selfhood through a gendered, racialized, and embodied image. Disability features as a site of tension, a site of interrogation of Zelwa’s (the protagonist) sense of self. It is a peculiar coming-of-age narrative in the sense that it is an anti-Bildungsroman, a probe into bodies that fail to be integrated, assimilated, or acclimated to American culture, while also failing to maintain their association with an Arab collective identity. Jarrar’s text underscores and redefines the “I” of the Arab immigrant exploring transgenerational trauma and reclaiming her identity through celebrating the body.

scholarly journals Transitions in the Embodied Experience After Stroke: Grounded Theory Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 96 (10) ◽  
pp. 1565-1575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily K. Timothy ◽  
Fiona P. Graham ◽  
William M.M. Levack
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Physical Therapy ◽  
Physical Therapist ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Clinical Theory ◽  
Bodily Movement ◽  
Body Self

Abstract Background The body is central to the practice of physical therapy, but clinical theory largely neglects the body as a concept. A better understanding of the embodied experience could enhance delivery of physical therapy. Objectives The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of embodiment for people after stroke while transitioning from the hospital to the home. Design and Methods Seven people with stroke, aged 66 to 89 years, were interviewed 1 month after discharge from a stroke rehabilitation unit. Interviews were analyzed using grounded theory methods, and a theoretical model was developed. Results Two main themes in the embodied experience of stroke were: (1) “a divergent body-self,” where participants referred to an objective physical body, separate from their sense of self, and (2) “a cohesive body-self,” reflecting a sense that “it's all me.” The theme “a divergent body-self” included subthemes of a body that was “strange,” “unpredictable,” and “effortful.” In contrast, the theme “a cohesive body-self” comprised the subthemes “freedom,” “control,” and “self-identity,” reflecting experiences of bodily movement, personal independence, and self-identity. Participants fluxed between these perspectives, within moments and over time, with these perspectives influenced by “anchors,” including their environment, knowledge, and attitude. Conclusions The bodily experience of stroke is intimately connected with a person's sense of self. A person's social and physical environment, as well as his or her personal attributes, can serve to “anchor” that person more comfortably within his or her embodied experience of stroke. Theory that acknowledges the integral connection between body and self could enhance physical therapist practice. This study supports the need for physical therapists to be adequately informed to integrate the embodied experience in their practice when working with people after stroke.

scholarly journals Lost in the socially extended mind: Genuine intersubjectivity and disturbed self-other demarcation in schizophrenia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Froese ◽  
Joel Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Extended Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Interpersonal Process ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Progressive Loss ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Intuitive Manner

Much of the characteristic symptomatology of schizophrenia can be understood as resulting from a pervasive sense of disembodiment. The body is experienced as an external machine that needs to be controlled with explicit intentional commands, which in turn leads to severe difficulties in interacting with the world in a fluid and intuitive manner. In consequence, there is a characteristic dissociality: Others become problems to be solved by intellectual effort and no longer present opportunities for spontaneous interpersonal alignment. This dissociality goes hand in hand with a progressive loss of the socially extended mind, which normally affords opportunities for co-regulation of cognitive and affective processes. However, at times people with schizophrenia report that they are confronted by the opposite of this dissociality, namely an unusual fluidity of the self-other boundary as expressed in experiences of ambiguous body boundaries, intrusions, and even merging with others. Here the person has not lost access to the socially extended mind but has instead become lost in it, possibly due to a weakened sense of self. We argue that this neglected aspect of schizophrenic social dysfunction can be usefully approached via the concept of genuine intersubjectivity: We normally participate in a shared experience with another person by implicitly co-regulating how our interaction unfolds. This co-regulation integrates our respective experience’s dynamical bases into one interpersonal process and gives the interaction an ambiguous second-person character. The upshot is that reports of abnormal self-other fluidity are not indicative of hallucinations without any basis in reality, but of a heightened sensitivity and vulnerability to processes of interpersonal alignment and mutual incorporation that form the normal basis of social life. We conclude by discussing implications of this view for both the science of consciousness as well as approaches to intervention and therapy.

scholarly journals Significance of Yoga in Healing Anxiety and Depression

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutu D Trivedi ◽  
Dr. Shailesh Raval
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Fresh Blood ◽  
Anxiety Test ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
And Control ◽  
Purposive Sample ◽  
Outcome Result

Yoga is an ancient art based on a harmonizing system of development for the body, mind, and spirit. Primary goal of yoga is to gain balance and control in one’s life that includes both physical and mental wellbeing. Effect of yoga on mental wellbeing: Yoga frees one from confusion and distress; provide a sense of calmness and installs optimism within you. Effect of yoga on physical wellbeing: Practicing yoga poses cleanses and detoxifies the body, by circulating of fresh blood through the body. Yoga helps to achieve perfect health, spiritual contentment, and total well being. It is inner journey inside one’s self and maintains harmony between mind and body. The aim is to examine Significance of Yoga in healing anxiety and depression for this purpose researcher selected purposive sample study. The study was carried out on 42 Male/Female at yoga ayurveda, shilaj, Ahmedabad. Sinha Anxiety Test and Aron. T. Deck Depression inventory were administered after gap of one month. Outcome/result of study was seen.

scholarly journals FROM THE HISTORY OF FEMINIST RESEARCH OF FEMALE BODY AND SEXUALITY IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
I. Ihnatenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
And Control ◽  
Female Power

This article presents the analysis of the feminism history toward the female body, which has figured alternately as the source of women's oppression and as the locus of a specifically female power. Drawing on Europian and American feminist literature, the author of the article shows how feminist scholars focus first of all on the reproductive body and on female's sexuality. The key message of all these scientific works is that corporealities of women may be seen as making vulnerable to male domination and control, both directly through the exercise of superior physical power, and indirectly through social compulsions and the representation of sexual difference across a variety of discourses. It is shown that for feminist scholars, the body has always been of central importance for understanding women embodied experience, cultural and historical construction on the female body in the various contexts of social life.

scholarly journals 中國傳統文化對生命倫理的影響

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Zongliang XU
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Chinese View

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.中國傳統文化的特點是整體性、綜合性，是互為經緯的一體文化，其核心是倫理道德思想。與生命倫理相關的重要觀念有：天人合一、神形相即、知行合一以及豐富的生命觀。當代生命倫理學必須在生命、倫理兩方面以及兩者的關係上，在理論探索與實踐活動的結合上下功夫，更須思考倫理問題背後的本質性終極性的理念。生命倫理學不是簡單的應用倫理，它會深涉生命哲學、道德哲學等領域，中國傳統文化中的豐富思想可以為生命倫理學的發展提供寶貴的思想資源。China, with a civil history of 5000 years, has rich cultural resources. Chinese culture differs from Western culture in the content of thought, the means of thinking and the form of expression. Generally, Chinese culture is not an analytical, discursive, dualistic system. Rather, it is characteristic of an entire, comprehensive monism. In the humanities, the Chinese have integrated literature, history and philosophy into one system, making them an integral whole. As the main body of Chinese culture, Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism agitate and annotate each other, becoming a cultural unity. Finally, the core of Chinese culture is the thought of morality.The important ideas of Chinese culture include the following. First is the unity of heaven and human. From the Chinese view, nature as a big cosmos and human as a small cosmos are closely bound up and regarded as an organic whole. The concept of "the unity of heaven and human" runs through the every aspect of human social life: political, economic, custom, moral as well as the relation between human and nature.Second is the unity of mind and body. Under this view, the body and the mind are interdependent. It emphasizes that the life is an integral whole and cannot be separated sharply between mind and body. The process of life is the process of keeping balancing and harmonizing between body and mind. The third is the unity of knowing and doing. This idea takes that knowing and doing cannot be taken separately, they must be linked up with each other. A focus is give to practice - knowing is always serving for the purpose of doing. Finally, Chinese culture carries rich concepts of life.These characteristics exert great influence on bioethics. Take the issue of euthanasia as an example. Should euthanasia be moral and legal? How should we choose euthanasia? From the Chinese view, these are in-depth problems concerning at least how we should understand human life as a unity of mind and body. A terminal patient usually has both bodily and psychological suffering. If we only attempt to relieve his bodily suffering by offering euthanasia, we will cut apart his whole life and be unable to embody the humanistic spirit of medicine.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 57 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

scholarly journals GALERI TUBUH DAN RUANG DI MANGGA BESAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 2223
Author(s):  
Chastellia Marshelle Nery ◽  
Agustinus Sutanto
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
The Body ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
A Value ◽  
Body Acceptance ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
The Impact

Mangga Besar has an image of the region which is famous for its nightlife and culinary tourism in it, this area also has an anomaly that has become a public secret which is a brothel. Taken from the description of the issue of prostitution that embodies, there is a body that connotations are “valued” by certain standard criteria (beauty, sexy, etc.) Similarly, everyday social life is faced with the existence of certain social value standards regarding the appearance and shape of the body as body goals. So that not a few people experience insecurity with their own bodies, and the impact is there are psychological symptoms of low self-acceptance, body shaming, non-equality, etc. The project has a vision to show the diversity of the human body, each body and condition of the human being to create self-identity so that it aims to increase knowledge about body acceptance as a value by supporting the existence of body positivity. By using pattern language method and type of activity space as a typology that hoped it can help to translate the space from the projects background. The mission is to create a space that supports the growth of the community within them with the theme is body and space, which is the relationship between the human body that forms its own space through movements that are formed as expressions of self and where the body here is the main actor of an architectural space. Besides that, it is also used as a third place facility that supports the region, so this gallery has 3 main programs, education, entertainment, and socialize. Keywords: Body; Community; Expression; Social; SpaceAbstrakMangga Besar memiliki citra kawasan yang terkenal akan kehidupan malamnya. Kawasan ini juga memiliki anomali yang sudah menjadi rahasia umum yaitu tempat pelacuran. Terambil dari gambaran isu prostitusi yang mewujudkan bahwa adanya tubuh yang secara konotasi “dihargai” dengan kriteria standar tertentu (cantik, sexy, dll). Sama halnya dengan kehidupan sosial sehari-hari yang dihadapi dengan adanya standar nilai sosial tertentu mengenai penampilan dan bentuk tubuh sebagai body goals. Sehingga tak sedikit orang mengalami insecurity dengan tubuh mereka sendiri, dan dampaknya ada gejala psikologis akan self-acceptance yang rendah, body shaming, non-equality, dll. Proyek memiliki visi untuk menunjukkan akan keberagaman tubuh manusia, setiap tubuh dan kondisi manusia mencerminkan identitas diri sehingga bertujuan meningkakan pengetahuan mengenai body acceptance as a value dengan mendukung adanya gerakan body positivity. Misi menciptakan sebuah ruang yang mendukung pertumbuhan komunitas di dalamnya yang bertemakan body and space, yang dimana hubungan antara tubuh manusia yang membentuk ruangnya sendiri melalui gerakan yang terbentuk sebagai ekspresi dari diri dan dimana tubuh disini adalah aktor utama dari sebuah ruang arsitektur. Dengan menerapkan metode pattern laguange dan tipe ruang kegiatan sebagai pola diharapkan dapat membantu menerjemahkan ruang dari visi yang ingin diciptakan. Selain itu dijadikan sebagai fasilitas third place yang menunjang untuk kawasan, sehingga dibentuknya sebuah gallery yang memiliki 3 program utama yaitu adanya education, entertainment, dan socialize.

Perbandingan Efek Suplementasi Tablet Tambah Darah Dengan Dan Tanpa Vitamin C Terhadap Kadar Hemoglobin Pada Ibu Hamil Dengan Usiakehamilan 16-32 Minggu Di Desa Keniten Kecamatan Mojo Kabupaten Kediri

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Siti Asiyah ◽  
Dwi Estuning Rahayu ◽  
Wiranti Dwi Novita Isnaeni
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Gestational Age ◽  
Group Treatment ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Hemoglobin Level ◽  
The Body ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Fetal Organ ◽  
And Control

The needed of Iron Tablet in pregnancy was increase than mother who not pregnant.  That  cause of  high metabolism at the pregnancy for formed of  fetal organ and energy. One of effort for prevent anemia in mother pregnant with giving the Iron tablet and vitamin c. The reason of  this research in 4 June – 11 July 2014 is for compare the effect of  iron tablet suplementation with and without vitamin C toward Hemoglobin level in mother pregnant With Gestational Age Of 16-32 Weeks In Desa Keniten Kecamatan Mojo Kabupaten Kediri. This research method using comparative analytical.  Research design type of Quasy Eksperiment that have treatment group and control group. Treatment group will giving by Iron tablet and 100 mg vitamin C, and control group just giving by iron tablet during 21 days. Population in this research are all of mother pregnant with Gestational Age Of 16-32 Weeks with Sampling technique is  cluster random sampling is 29 mother pregnant. Comparison analysis of  iron tablet suplementation effect with and without vitamin C toward Hemoglobin level in mother pregnant With Gestational Age Of 16-32 Weeks, data analysis using Mann Whitney U-test and the calculated U value (44,5) less than U-table (51). So there was difference of iron tablet suplementation effect with and without vitamin C toward Hemoglobin level in mother pregnant With Gestational Age Of 16-32 Weeks Therefore, the addition of vitamin C on iron intake is needed to increase the uptake of iron tablets. When the amount of iron uptake increases, the reserves of iron in the body will also increase, so as to prevent anemia in pregnant women; Keywords : Iron Tablet (Fe), Vitamin C, Hemoglobin level, Mother Pregnant

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