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Healing Touch: Hermeneutics of Trauma and Recovery
This is an edited, abridged, and revised version of a chapter written by Richard Kearney which will appear in his forthcoming book Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense to be published by Columbia University Press in 2021.
Richard Kearney
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Helena Duffy and Avril Tynan (eds.), Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics: Essays in Honour of Colin Davis
Throughout a career spanning four decades, Colin Davis has established himself as a main proponent of a philosophical and hermeneutic approach to the study of the narrative arts in which the prime goal is to come to a fuller understanding, not only of ...
Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
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Lifespan Integration Therapy with Trauma-Exposed Children: a Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Study
Childhood trauma is a devastating reality with immense psychological impact to a child. Outcome research of therapy with trauma-exposed children is scarce and mostly focuses on cognitive and behavioural changes. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Lifespan Integration (LI) therapy purports to integrate traumatic experiences into a cohesive ...
Chris Rensch +3 more
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Calling trauma, elite capture, and hermeneutical injustice [PDF]
Abstract Not infrequently, members of privileged groups call trauma: by framing a complex situation around the trauma they claim to have endured. What, if anything, is the problem with this? To address this question, I analyse a case study of this phenomenon: culturally prevalent descriptions of Portuguese decolonization in terms of ...
Carolina Flores
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Theological Language in Crisis? The Importance of Trauma Hermeneutics for Exploring Gendered Metaphors for God in the Book of Jeremiah [PDF]
In this article that explores male and female metaphors for God in the Hebrew Bible, I argue with specific reference to the book of Jeremiah that the intersection of trauma and gender is particularly important in considering how tumultuous times inevitably impact the way people spoke and continue to speak about God.
L. Juliana Claassens
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Christ and Cancer. Trauma as Hermeneutics
The medical world approaches cancer as a physical disease, and nothing else. Medicine sees little in Man except anatomy and physiology, a system – albeit complex – of cells, tissues and organs, each with its particular function in maintaining and perpetuating the species. However, any confrontation with illness reminds us that we are much more than the
Ioana ACHIM
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Exploring the lived experience following trauma: a hermeneutic phenomenology study
The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of adult individuals who have been involved in an acute trauma event. What we have come to know and understand about acute trauma experiences has been mainly influenced by research methods that have offered categorized or defined trauma outcomes.
Jo‐Ann Vis
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Myth, collective trauma and war in Serbia: a cultural-hermeneutical appraisal
This paper explores the close relationship between mythical narrative, collective trauma and their repercussions on the Serbian population since the mid-1980s. It is argued that Serbia's particular cultural-historically inherited frame of perception provided a fertile seedbed for Miloševic to successfully launch a policy of re-traumatization and thus ...
Daniel Šuber
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Trauma Theory and Theological Engagement: An Appraisal on Trends in Trauma Hermeneutics
Studies on trauma theory and its significance to biblical hermeneutics are largely unknown in Africa, especially in the West African context. But due to recent sad events of conflicts and violence, trauma is now being explored for possible engagement in biblical and practical theological scholarship. This essay is an appraisal on the crucial problem of
Musa Hassan
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Childhood trauma is an often life-altering experience that impacts behaviours, relationships, cognition, psychological health, and neurological functioning. In order to mitigate against the multiple effects of trauma, early treatment and support is recommended. Unfortunately, treatment is often not obtained due to lack of disclosure in childhood, which
Kate Beamer
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