What is it to lose hope?

Ratcliffe, Matthew

doi:10.1007/s11097-011-9215-1

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“…In this analysis, we draw from the work of other researchers who have distinguished types of hope including: Lohne and Severinsson’s distinction between “big hopes” and “small hopes”; 17 Leung et al and Corbett et al.’s distinction between “particularized hope” versus “generalized hope” 7,18 ; Wiles et al’s distinction between “hope as want” and “hope as expectation”; 9 Ratcliffe’s descriptions of “passive hope” and “active hope”; 8 and especially from Darren Webb’s concept of multiple “modes of hoping” 1 to shed light on the role of hope in the reporting of expectations and evaluation of outcomes in a CAM trial. While these authors have distinguished hopes along different dimensions (e.g., small vs. big; general vs. specific) such judgments regarding the sources or dimensions of participants’ hopes are not the goal of this analysis.…”

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Modes of Hoping: Understanding Hope and Expectation in the Context of a Clinical Trial of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Chronic Pain

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This article explores the role of hope in participants’ assessments of their expectations, experiences and treatment outcomes. Data analysis focused on semi-structured, open-ended interviews with 44 participants, interviewed 3-5 times each over the course of a study evaluating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD, a form of chronic orofacial pain). Transcripts were coded and analyzed using qualitative and ethnographic methods. A “Modes of Hoping”1 framework informed our analysis. Five modes of hoping emerged from participant narratives: Realistic Hope; Wishful Hope; Utopian Hope; Technoscience Hope; and Transcendent Hope. Using this framework, hope is demonstrated as exerting a profound influence over how participants assess and report their expectations. This suggests that researchers interested in measuring expectations and understanding their role in treatment outcomes should consider hope as exercising a multifaceted and dynamic influence on participants’ reporting of expectations and their experience and evaluation of treatment.

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Modes of Hoping: Understanding Hope and Expectation in the Context of a Clinical Trial of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Chronic Pain

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“…This may induce feelings of self-alienation and guilt toward one’s children. Moreover, the ongoing disappointment of the striving toward a non-work attitude may become habitualized in the sense that the disappointment is passively anticipated together with the feelings of striving, triggering feelings of despair and loss of hope as such (Ratcliffe, 2013). On the ground of such experiences, negative beliefs may develop and foster cognitive styles that entail further depressive experiencing.…”

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The Relevance of Explanatory First-Person Approaches (EFPA) for Understanding Psychopathological Phenomena. The Role of Phenomenology

Schmidt

2018

Front. Psychol.

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The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the contributions of phenomenology-inspired approaches to the explanation of psychopathological phenomena. First, I introduce the notion of Explanatory First-Person Approaches (EFPA) which share the assumption that the explanation of consciousness and conscious phenomena necessitates, at least partially, phenomenal facts functioning as explanans. Phenomenal facts refer to facts about structures and processes of consciousness. To differentiate phenomenology from other EFPA and to extract its distinctive feature, I compare phenomenology to the method falling under the category of EFPA it overlaps with the most: new introspective methods as recently described. I then present genetic phenomenology as the distinctive feature of phenomenology and show how particularly genetic phenomenology complements biological explanations of psychopathological phenomena in the context of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Moreover, I present Cognitive Theory (CT) as the most acknowledged EFPA in the broader scientific community, demonstrate CT’s limitations in explaining conscious phenomena in the context of psychological disturbances such as depression, and show how genetic phenomenology can also significantly complement the cognitive approach. An example in the context of burnout-depression will be given. The overall argument for the significance of phenomenology is as follows: Genetic phenomenology renders phenomenology a distinctive kind of EFPA; genetic phenomenology can complement one of the most dominant non-EFPA accounts in the science of psychiatric disorders: biological reductionism; and genetic phenomenology can complement the most dominant existing EFPA in the science of psychological disturbances: Cognitive Theory.

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“…4 For more on this relationship between love and justice, see [7]. 5 As a particularly good phenomenological consideration, see [9,10]. Additionally, see [11] for a Sartrean account of hope, [12] for a Kantian phenomenology of hope, [13] as a model of how to consider hope in the context of Bloch's phenomenology of death, [14] as an example of why hope can be contrasted with a phenomenology despair, and [15] for a politics of hope in light of Levinas. conception of determinate religion (what Jean-Luc Marion might term the counter-intentionality of a horizon-less religious phenomenality), 6 I will not address that question here, but instead work from a conditional acceptance of both as part of embodied existence that is at least possibly the case for a great number of existing individuals.…”

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“…", she effectively identifies the way in which hope forms what we might phenomenologically term the horizon of expectation against which selfhood is not only understood, but constituted. 9 Martin Heidegger expresses this basic idea when he claims that "Dasein 'is' its past in the manner of its being which, roughly expressed, on each occasion 'occurs' out of its future" ( [21], p. 19). In other words, things are defined in retrospect in relation to what will eventually be the case about them.…”

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Living Joyfully after Losing Social Hope: Kierkegaard and Chrétien on Selfhood and Eschatological Expectation

Simmons

2017

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Abstract:In this essay, I offer an existential-phenomenological consideration of what it might look like to live joyfully after losing social hope. Using the example of the widespread hopelessness that many are feeling in light of the election of Donald Trump, I suggest that the danger of losing hope is that we can also lose our selfhood in the process. In order to develop a conception of "eschatological hope" that would be resistant to the loss of such social and political expectations, I draw specifically on Søren Kierkegaard's notion that "the expectancy of faith is victory," and Jean-Louis Chrétien's idea of "the unhoped for," in order to develop a model of hope that remains when it seems like all other hope has been lost. Rather than being overcome by anxiety about the future, eschatological hope fosters joy in the present.Keywords: hope; eschatology; joy; subjectivity; Søren Kierkegaard; Jean-Louis Chrétien; David Kangas; Claude Romano; phenomenology; philosophy of religion This essay is dedicated to the memory of my mentor and friend, David Kangas, for whom the eschaton is now a reality rather than merely a hope. He not only taught me to read Kierkegaard, but also how to live.

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What is it to lose hope?

Cited by 76 publications

References 20 publications

Modes of Hoping: Understanding Hope and Expectation in the Context of a Clinical Trial of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Chronic Pain

Modes of Hoping: Understanding Hope and Expectation in the Context of a Clinical Trial of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Chronic Pain

The Relevance of Explanatory First-Person Approaches (EFPA) for Understanding Psychopathological Phenomena. The Role of Phenomenology

Living Joyfully after Losing Social Hope: Kierkegaard and Chrétien on Selfhood and Eschatological Expectation

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