Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery

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Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery

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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to...

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Doctoral

Date created

2010

Creator

Hart, M J Alexandra

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294

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action / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Immune Deficiency Syndrome / Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome / enaction / social enaction / social enactivism / enactive / psycho-phenomenological / psychophenomenological / vipassana / groundlessness / mind-body / korper / leib / co-generative / Focusing / co-creative / environment / Antonio Damasio / reciprocal constraints / Pierre Vermersch / Claire Petitmengin / Antione Lutz / narrative / discourse / phenomenal invariants / Evan Thompson / Merleau-Ponty / Algirdis Julien Greimas / Husserl / first-person / Fransisco Varela / modelling invariants / Natalie Depraz / isotope / John Boyd / OODA loop / Jonathan Shear / Shaun Gallagher / Arthur Kleinman / Humberto Maturana / second-person / Alva Noe / Dan Zahavi / stages / Embodied Mind / Canterbury / Wellington / New Zealand / non-dual / non-reductive embodied / phenomenological / third-person / graph-theoretical cluster analysis / cognitive science / experience / solution / subject-specific categories / universal categories / self / energy / illness process / intersubjectivity / Mahayana Buddhism / contact / recovered / making sense / recursive loop / perception / dynamical decompensation / neurology / diagnosis / empathy / treatment / management / neurophenomenological / neurophenomenology / consciousness / veracity / agency / multidimensional / interdisciplinary / category theory / enculturation / mathematisation of phenomenology / interview / nomenclature / diagnostic criteria / incidence / prevalence / coping strategy / etiology / epidemiology / psychosomatic medicine / meaning / women / girl / female / anthropology / sociology / cognitive behavioral therapy / exercise therapy / recovery / mindful awareness / suffering / symbolisation / Prasangika / no-self / aggregates / wheel of karma / cognition / basic element analysis / mental factors / operational closure / stereotypes / enactive ontologically fragile self / grief / process-knowledge / epoche / textual invariants / compound meaning / saturation / formalisation / cluster analysis / inter-session review / inter-individual validation / explicitation interview / intricacy / confidence / psychophenomenology / self-esteem / sanction / self dis-integration / permanence / continuity / ego-self / emotion / surrender / semiotic square / meditation / semiotic / compassion / existential feelings / goal obstruction / movement / transformation / change / somatic / Giovanna Colombetti / agoraphobia / panic / anxiety / psychotherapy / sleep / rest / pain / weakness / strength / stamina / Diego Cosmelli / heaviness / food / chemicals / allergy / recovering / despair / frustration / helplessness / fear / efference / valence / afference / as-if-body-loop / representation / attention / intention / sustainable / sustainability / neurasthenia / asthenia / hysteria / mononucleosis / samatha-vispasnya / prajna / vijnana / Eugene Gendlin / Abhidharma / dukkha / shamatha / interdependence / vipashyana

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