Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-125).

In this qualitative phenomenological study, the researcher interviewed 18 hospitalised patients and community members in rural Appalachia to learn about their mystical experiences in the context of health care. A loosely structured interview format addressed factors that initiate mystical experience and essential qualities of mystical experience. In addition, the researcher examined the nursing process, focusing on assessments and actions which supported the participants in sharing their experiences. The researcher also considered her response to being the recipient of these shared experiences. Data were analysed using the crystallisation/immersion method and concept mapping. Mystical experience was conceptualised as a process incorporating initiation, occurrence, maturation, and integration of mystical experience. Essential aspects of the mystical experience itself were found to include sensory-motor perception, interaction with the supernatural, interaction with dead and living members of the family, conviction of reality, cognition, dynamic tension and emotional intensity. Nursing actions which supported the participant included listening and support. The researcher's response to the participants' sharing their experiences included tension, intimacy and empathy, sense of awe and autonomic responses. In addition, the researcher developed an appreciation of the mystical in everyday experience. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

O êxtase místico costuma ser estudado a partir da análise de rituais de incorporação, possessão de espiritos, transe de curanderia e outros processos que não raro envolvem música para propiciar estados alterados de consciência. Considerando que os rituais sufis integram música, dança e poesia com propósito extático, este trabalho aborda a relação entre a poesia e a dança mística em Rumi e Hafiz, propondo uma metodologia que utiliza noções de linguagem da dança para a análise de poemas. / The mystical ecstasy is usually studied from the analysis of rituals of incorporation, possession of spirits, trance curanderia and other processes that often involve music to provide altered states of consciousness. Whereas Sufi rituals integrate music, dance and poetry with purpose ecstatic, this work addresses the relationship between poetry and mystical dance in Rumi and Hafiz proposing a methodology that uses notions of dance language for analyzing poems.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio est l’un des plus grands écrivains vivants de langue française. En tant que thème aussi conventionnel que révolutionnaire, le Regard est présent et persistant chez lui. Le regard implique non seulement deux facultés pour percevoir le monde intérieur et le monde extérieur : les sens et la conscience, mais encore une possibilité qui pourrait dépasser les facultés humaines pour connaître véritablement : comme une force divine, un don surnaturel. Il amène à « l’extase matérielle », à la communion totale avec l’absolu. Ainsi, le regard constitue l’horizon entre l’intérieur et l’extérieur, entre l’immanence et la transcendance, et détient la clé de l’écriture fondée sur la poétique de l’extase. En position médiane et de nature incertaine, il est une présence primordiale dans l’aventure de l’écrivain vers « l’autre côté » du monde. Nous envisageons notre étude surtout dans les rapports du regard avec l’écriture de l’extase matérielle. / Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio is one of the greatest living writers who write in French. Regard is a persistent theme in his work. Regard signifies not only the senses and consciousness, two faculties that could perceive the inner world and the outside world, but also a divine force or a supernatural gift to exceed the human faculties for the real knowledge. It leads to material ecstasy and total communion with the absolute. Regard is considered as the horizon between the inside and the outside, between immanence and transcendence. It holds the key to writing based on poetic ecstasy. Because of its middle position and uncertain nature, Regard is an essential presence in the writer’s journey to the “other side” of the world. We will study especially the relation of Regard and his writing of material ecstasy.

This essay is a study about how Carl Ulrik Sondén, a Swedish doctor during the 19th century, described and with his descriptions medicalized religious ecstasy in his thesis from 1842. The essay uses Vera Syrakvash theoretical model of medicalization to analyse how Sondén medicalized religious ecstasy, Chorea s:t Viti, to show how his thesis plays a part in the medicalization of Chorea s:t Viti. Sondéns medicalization, and how it is a part of the secularization that took place in Sweden during the 19th century is also discussed. To analyse this, Thorleif Pettersson’s work about secularization is used, and Sondéns thesis is applied to Petterssons theory of the three levels of secularization. The essay shows how Sondéns thesis fills all three of Syrakvash’s levels of medicalization and therefore fully medicalizes Chorea s:t Viti. This medicalization is then applied in to Pettersson’s theoretic model, and it fulfils the first level of secularization.

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Drug profiling, isto é, a caracterização de amostras de drogas apreendidas no sentido de estabelecer conexões entre apreensões realizadas em diferentes épocas e/ou locais a uma origem comum de produção clandestina, tem sido um objetivo dos órgãos governamentais responsáveis pela prevenção/repressão. Especificamente tratando-se de comprimidos de ecstasy, o conhecimento de suas propriedades físicas e químicas é de relevante importância para discriminar a apreensão de diferentes lotes. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho propõe uma nova abordagem para estabelecer conexões entre apreensões de comprimidos de ecstasy, por meio da calorimetria exploratória diferencial (DSC), termogravimetria (TG) e difratometria de raios-X (DRX). Também foi realizada a caracterização física de todos os comprimidos (logotipo, coloração, massa, diâmetro e espessura), bem como a identificação/quantificação dos constituintes ativos por cromatografia em fase gasosa acoplada à espectrometria de massas (GC-MS) e o perfil de dissolução in vitro. Além disso, foi desenvolvido um método empregando a extração líquido-líquido para o isolamento da 3,4-metilenodioximetanfetamina (MDMA) dos comprimidos de ecstasy, que posteriormente foi cristalizada para cloridrato de MDMA (MDMA.HCl). Foram analisados dezessete diferentes lotes de comprimidos de ecstasy de diversos logotipos e colorações apreendidos no município de São Paulo, Brasil. Apenas um lote apresentou como única substância ativa a clorofenilpiperazina (CPP). Os outros continham apenas MDMA e o conteúdo de MDMA variou de 29 a 115-mg/comprimido. Os valores de massa dos comprimidos variaram de 143 a 341-mg, a espessura de 3,2 a 5,8-mm e o diâmetro de 7,0 a 9,5-mm. A comparação das curvas obtidas, tanto por calorimetria exploratória diferencial (DSC) como pelos difratogramas de raios-X (DRX), permitiu discriminar aqueles com perfis semelhantes, importante para identificar a origem de produção. O baixo grau de cristalinidade do MDMA.HCl de alguns comprimidos de ecstasy não impediu a caracterização por DSC e DRX. Esses resultados podem ser úteis para a aplicação no trabalho de inteligência forense. / Drug profiling or the characterization of seized drug samples to link seizures made at different times and/or locations to their common clandestine origin, has long been a goal of law enforcement agencies. Considering the trafficking of ecstasy tablets, the knowledge of chemical and physical properties is of utmost importance to discriminate between different seizures. In this context this study proposed a new approach to establish links among seizures of ecstasy tablets by using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetry (TG) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Besides this characterization, physical appearance (logotype, color, weight, diameter and thickness), identification/quantification of active constituents by gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and in vitro drug dissolution assays were performed too. A method employing liquid-liquid extraction was also developed for the isolation of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) from ecstasy tablets and afterwards MDMA was crystallized to MDMA hydrochloride (MDMA.HCl). Seventeen different lots of various logotypes and colors of confiscated ecstasy tablets from seizures in São Paulo city, Brazil, were analyzed. Chlorophenylpiperazine (CPP) was found only as an active ingredient in one batch. The others tablets contained only MDMA and the content of MDMA varied from 29 to 115-mg/tablet. The weight values of tablets varied from 143 to 341-mg, the thickness from 3,2 to 5,8-mm and the diameter from 7,0 to 9,5-mm. DSC/TG curves and X-ray difratograms of the ecstasy tablets allowed distinguishing those with similar profile, for both techniques, which is important to identify the source of production. The low degree of MDMA.HCl crystallinity of some ecstasy tablets didnt prevent DSC and XRD characterization. These results can be useful for forensic intelligence work application.

Drug profiling, isto é, a caracterização de amostras de drogas apreendidas no sentido de estabelecer conexões entre apreensões realizadas em diferentes épocas e/ou locais a uma origem comum de produção clandestina, tem sido um objetivo dos órgãos governamentais responsáveis pela prevenção/repressão. Especificamente tratando-se de comprimidos de ecstasy, o conhecimento de suas propriedades físicas e químicas é de relevante importância para discriminar a apreensão de diferentes lotes. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho propõe uma nova abordagem para estabelecer conexões entre apreensões de comprimidos de ecstasy, por meio da calorimetria exploratória diferencial (DSC), termogravimetria (TG) e difratometria de raios-X (DRX). Também foi realizada a caracterização física de todos os comprimidos (logotipo, coloração, massa, diâmetro e espessura), bem como a identificação/quantificação dos constituintes ativos por cromatografia em fase gasosa acoplada à espectrometria de massas (GC-MS) e o perfil de dissolução in vitro. Além disso, foi desenvolvido um método empregando a extração líquido-líquido para o isolamento da 3,4-metilenodioximetanfetamina (MDMA) dos comprimidos de ecstasy, que posteriormente foi cristalizada para cloridrato de MDMA (MDMA.HCl). Foram analisados dezessete diferentes lotes de comprimidos de ecstasy de diversos logotipos e colorações apreendidos no município de São Paulo, Brasil. Apenas um lote apresentou como única substância ativa a clorofenilpiperazina (CPP). Os outros continham apenas MDMA e o conteúdo de MDMA variou de 29 a 115-mg/comprimido. Os valores de massa dos comprimidos variaram de 143 a 341-mg, a espessura de 3,2 a 5,8-mm e o diâmetro de 7,0 a 9,5-mm. A comparação das curvas obtidas, tanto por calorimetria exploratória diferencial (DSC) como pelos difratogramas de raios-X (DRX), permitiu discriminar aqueles com perfis semelhantes, importante para identificar a origem de produção. O baixo grau de cristalinidade do MDMA.HCl de alguns comprimidos de ecstasy não impediu a caracterização por DSC e DRX. Esses resultados podem ser úteis para a aplicação no trabalho de inteligência forense. / Drug profiling or the characterization of seized drug samples to link seizures made at different times and/or locations to their common clandestine origin, has long been a goal of law enforcement agencies. Considering the trafficking of ecstasy tablets, the knowledge of chemical and physical properties is of utmost importance to discriminate between different seizures. In this context this study proposed a new approach to establish links among seizures of ecstasy tablets by using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetry (TG) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Besides this characterization, physical appearance (logotype, color, weight, diameter and thickness), identification/quantification of active constituents by gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and in vitro drug dissolution assays were performed too. A method employing liquid-liquid extraction was also developed for the isolation of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) from ecstasy tablets and afterwards MDMA was crystallized to MDMA hydrochloride (MDMA.HCl). Seventeen different lots of various logotypes and colors of confiscated ecstasy tablets from seizures in São Paulo city, Brazil, were analyzed. Chlorophenylpiperazine (CPP) was found only as an active ingredient in one batch. The others tablets contained only MDMA and the content of MDMA varied from 29 to 115-mg/tablet. The weight values of tablets varied from 143 to 341-mg, the thickness from 3,2 to 5,8-mm and the diameter from 7,0 to 9,5-mm. DSC/TG curves and X-ray difratograms of the ecstasy tablets allowed distinguishing those with similar profile, for both techniques, which is important to identify the source of production. The low degree of MDMA.HCl crystallinity of some ecstasy tablets didnt prevent DSC and XRD characterization. These results can be useful for forensic intelligence work application.