Reconciling Emotions with Western Personhood

Fischer, Agneta H.; Jansz, Jeroen

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.1995.tb00266.x

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“…Reconciling inner dialogue involves going back and unifying, merging, uniting our past inner dialogue – past thoughts, feelings, sensations and memories – with that of the present. Narratives tell how people make sense of their everyday life (Fischer & Jansz 1995). This is revealed in the nurses’ response of being convinced – of facing the reality – that suicide is about deep despair.…”

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Psychiatric nurses’ response to suicidal psychiatric inpatients: struggling with self and sufferer

Gilje

Talseth²

2005

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Research on nurses' responses to suicidal patients is sparse. The purpose of this secondary analysis of qualitative data from interviews with 19 nurses employed in Norway was to describe nurses' responses to suicidal psychiatric inpatients. Thematic analyses revealed four themes: 'struggling with discernment of self and sufferer'; 'reconciling inner dialogue'; 'opening up while envisioning self from sufferer'; and 'revisioning the meaning of life revealed over time'. The main theme was 'struggling with self and sufferer'. While these findings reveal existential issues and self reflections of psychiatric nurses' struggle with the suffering of suicidal patients, they also contribute to a methodological debate. Further research is needed to examine nurses' responses to suicidal patients in various settings and to develop secondary analysis of qualitative data.

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Psychiatric nurses’ response to suicidal psychiatric inpatients: struggling with self and sufferer

Gilje

Talseth²

2005

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…The basic idea is that narratives present us with the antecedents of emotional experiences. Emotion narratives have been theorized this way as mere rationalizations, as legitimizing accounts (Fischer and Jansz, 1995; cf. Rymes, 1995): the modern, western subject is culturally supposed to be rational/unemotional and any display of emotions will thus threaten one's image.…”

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Emotions and Narrative Analysis: A Methodological Approach

Kleres

2010

J Theory Soc Behav

173

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After what has been termed the affective or emotional turn in sociology and many other academic fields, there is still a dearth of methodologies for systematic empirical emotion analysis in sociology. The article addresses this gap and argues that the principles of narrative analysis can be fruitfully extended to the systematic empirical investigation of emotions. A short description of key principles and tools in narrative analysis will serve as the basis for showing how the same concepts can be used to gain access to the emotional side of human experience. To this end the article engages with philosophical debates to develop a specific theoretical notion of emotions—their narrative nature—and discusses the emotional nature of narrative. Specifically, this calls into question any clear‐cut distinction between meaning and emotion. Based on this, the text then employs linguistic and some psychological and literary research to demonstrate and systematize key ways in which emotions can be expressed narratively as well as on the level of sentences and words. Together this forms an encompassing methodological framework that can capture the emotionality of human experience in its manifold forms. Specifically, this also addresses the problem of non‐conscious emotions.

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“…Damit ergibt sich als Grundperspektive narrativer Emotionsanalyse, danach zu fragen, welche Emotionen durch die spezifische Zusammenfügung einzelner narrativer Elemente konstituiert werden (Fischer und Jansz 1995): Wenn Emotionen Narrative sind, so konstituiert sich emotionale Erfahrung durch die situationalen Gegebenheiten, Ereignisse und Bedingungen gemäß deren subjektiver Bedeutung für den oder die AkteurIn. Entsprechend ist die zentrale analytische Frage: Wer handelt wie wem gegenüber und was passiert (Sarbin 1989, S. 188).…”

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Narrative des Mitgefühls: Methodischer Ansatz und Anwendung

Kleres

2015

Die Ambivalenz Der Gefühle

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Reconciling Emotions with Western Personhood

Cited by 50 publications

References 19 publications

Psychiatric nurses’ response to suicidal psychiatric inpatients: struggling with self and sufferer

Psychiatric nurses’ response to suicidal psychiatric inpatients: struggling with self and sufferer

Emotions and Narrative Analysis: A Methodological Approach

Narrative des Mitgefühls: Methodischer Ansatz und Anwendung

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