Mina Bagherinezhad; Rasol Roshan Chesli; Mohammad Arash Ramezani; Kazem Rasoulzadeh Tabatabaei
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Experience of complex trauma in childhood can lead to significant psychological effects in adulthood. One of such most important effects is maladaptive sense of self. The purpose of this study was to provide a deep understanding regarding the quality of sense of self in Iranian adult clients with a history ...
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Experience of complex trauma in childhood can lead to significant psychological effects in adulthood. One of such most important effects is maladaptive sense of self. The purpose of this study was to provide a deep understanding regarding the quality of sense of self in Iranian adult clients with a history of complex trauma. The research method employed was interpretive phenomenology, which is a qualitative method. For this purpose, using purposeful sampling, 12 clients (8 females and 4 males), with a history of complex trauma (emotional and physical neglect, and emotional, physical and sexual abuse) who referred to two psychological clinics in Tehran, were selected. In-depth interviews were held to collect data. The interview sessions were recorded and transcribed verbatim and were analyzed using the seven-stage method of Colaizzi. The two main themes extracted were the central sense of self and coping strategies. The central sense of self included two main categories of maladaptive shame and maladaptive fear. The coping strategies included three main categories of avoidance, feeling angry with oneself, and compensatory behaviors. In the end, the findings were discussed.
morteza keshmiri; Freshteh Mootabi; ladan fata; mohsen Kachooei
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Background: Shame is one of the emotions that a person experiences in a variety of everyday situations and many cases it is annoying. Shame is known as a moral emotion, yet its role in psychopathology has been emphasized. This study aimed to examine the lived experience of shame in individuals. Methods: ...
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Background: Shame is one of the emotions that a person experiences in a variety of everyday situations and many cases it is annoying. Shame is known as a moral emotion, yet its role in psychopathology has been emphasized. This study aimed to examine the lived experience of shame in individuals. Methods: This research is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. This research describes in-depth what shame is and how it is experienced from the perspective of individuals. The participants included eight men and seven women who contributed to an in-depth unstructured interview. A seven-step Colaizzi method was used to analyze the data. Data were analyzed using MAXQDA software (2018). Results: Based on our findings, the eight themes of "physical reactions", "accompanying emotions", "making mistakes", "vicarious shame", "gaze of others", "being subject to judgment", " preoccupation" and three sub-themes of "worry", "rumination" and "blame", "existential shame" with the sub-themes of "inadequacy" and "feeling different" are the most common ones in people's experience of shame. Conclusion: Results are discussed regarding the existing literature. In general, the study of people's experience of shame shows that there are common themes in the description of different people from what they have experienced. The use of shame as a concept in psychotherapy may improve our understanding of the nature of some psychological problems.
Mohammad Ali Talebi; Ozra Etemadi; Fatemeh Bahrami; Maryam Fatehizade; Rezvanosadat Jazayeri; Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi
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Captivity is one of the traumatic phenomena of war, which inflicts considerable damages on individual, interpersonal and ultimately, quality of marital life of prisoners of war. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting quality of marital life in the couples with POW experience ...
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Captivity is one of the traumatic phenomena of war, which inflicts considerable damages on individual, interpersonal and ultimately, quality of marital life of prisoners of war. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting quality of marital life in the couples with POW experience using phenomenological research method. 65 participant couples were selected using purposeful sampling method respecting for diversity and homogeneity. Semi-structured interview was used to collect data and thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings on the factors affecting prisoner of war quality of marital life included 25 sub themes that were classified into five main themes, including: interpersonal pathological interactions; individual psychological disorders; socio-economic factors; spiritual-ideological factors; and physiological pathological factors. The analysis of the structure of lived experiences of couples with POW experience revealed that the concept of quality of marital life in this community is a synergistic multi-factorial structure that requires an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach in applied interventions and theoretical researches at the prevention and treatment levels.
Masumeh Aminikhoo; Hossein Eskandari; Mohamad Reza Falsafinejad; Ahmad Borjali; Shahla Pezeshk
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Because of the dominance of positivistic approaches in psychology, exploring the subjective experiences of patients neglected, it is more prominent in patients with schizophrenia. The present researchers understand the meaning of their lived experience and their perception of themselves. Recently, researchers ...
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Because of the dominance of positivistic approaches in psychology, exploring the subjective experiences of patients neglected, it is more prominent in patients with schizophrenia. The present researchers understand the meaning of their lived experience and their perception of themselves. Recently, researchers have emphasized the importance of first-person’s information of patients. This study was conducted to understand the self-experience in schizophrenia. This was a qualitative case study (phenomenological design). Since the purpose of the research was the study of lived experience of participant, the phenomenological method used in this study. Participant was selected using purpose-oriented sampling. He is male, 36 years and with chronic schizophrenia. In-depth semi-structured interviews were recorded. External resources and participation records were also analyzed. Texts were analyzed by interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) method. The main themes include: the timing and location of self -experience, decreased agency, self -metaphor and mirror and physical aversion. The findings were approved theories of psychoanalysis, narrative and dialogical self.
