Understanding symptoms in the lives of adult patients with acute or chronic illness: a phenomenological study of patient experiences. [PDF]
Missel M +11 more
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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An embodied perspective on adherence to preventive health measures: examples from the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Grīnfelde M, Vēgners U, Balodis A.
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Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
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Why psychedelic-assisted therapy studies in eating disorders risk missing the mark on outcomes: a phenomenological psychopathology perspective. [PDF]
Koning E +6 more
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Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances
Abstract In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet accounts of objectification focus on objectifying treatment and leave the notion of objectifying perception unexplained.
Paulina Sliwa, Tom McClelland
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A qualitative exploration of the phenomenology of pain in children to inform pain assessment methods. [PDF]
Drake-Brockman TFE +7 more
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Detached self-observation as a developmental catalyst: theoretical insights from dynamical systems thinking, cultural mediation, and contemplative practice. [PDF]
Loncar L, Fiskum C.
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What Do We Risk to SQuEASE by Making Psychiatric Phenomenology Too Efficient?
Delcourt F, Englebert J.
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