Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-07-11T13:56:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Alaíze dos Santos Conceição.pdf: 820391 bytes, checksum: f516a9e9e2edd5174a4d92de9af1b5f1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-07-25T15:25:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Alaíze dos Santos Conceição.pdf: 820391 bytes, checksum: f516a9e9e2edd5174a4d92de9af1b5f1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-25T15:25:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Alaíze dos Santos Conceição.pdf: 820391 bytes, checksum: f516a9e9e2edd5174a4d92de9af1b5f1 (MD5) / FAPESB / A pesquisa visa refletir acerca do universo cultural e religioso de Rezadeiras e Rezadores do município de Governador Mangabeira, Recôncavo sul da Bahia, nas décadas de 1950 a 1970, ressaltando as suas atuações nas comunidades que residem. Esses sujeitos históricos são integrantes das classes trabalhadoras e negras, os quais, motivados por questões econômicas, foram introduzidos no mundo do trabalho ainda na infância. Por fatores raciais, esses indivíduos, em sua maioria, alocados na segunda geração do pós-abolição, perambularam pela região em busca de melhores condições de vida, uma vez que as migrações pelas cidades do Recôncavo foram intensas até as décadas de 1950. Nesse sentido, buscou-se na elucidação de experiências cotidianas, sobretudo no universo do trabalho e nos aspectos religiosos da benzeção refletir acerca das identidades individuais e coletivas construídas no processo. A permanência dos elementos culturais presentes no âmbito das benzeções revela particularidades de uma população no que tange à relação que estabelecem com o sobrenatural, as doenças e a cura, suas expectativas, sentimentos e as possibilidades de transcendência da dura realidade. Sendo assim, as fontes utilizadas foram os periódicos Folha do Norte e o Jornal A tarde, assim como os depoimentos orais dos sujeitos históricos envolvidos no contexto histórico em análise. This research aims to reflect on the cultural and religious universe of women healer and man healer from the town Governador Mangabeira, Recôncavo Southern Bahia, from 1950 to 1970 decades, emphasizing their role in the communities where they live. These historical subjects make part of working and black classes, who, forced by economic necessities, were inserted into the working world yet in the childhood. Due to racial factors, most of them were allocated in the post- abolition second generation, which made them perambulate through the region in search of a better life, because migrations through Recôncavo Southern Bahia were very intense until 1950. Thus, by elucidating everyday experiences, especially in terms of working and religious blessing practice aspects, this work aimed to reflect on individual and collective identities built in the process. The permanency of cultural elements presented in the blessing practice extent reveals particularities of people regarding relations they firm to the supernatural, the sicknesses and cures, their expectations, feelings and the possibility to transcend from the tough reality. The following sources were used in this study: periodicals Folha do Norte and Jornal A tarde and oral testimonials of the historical subjects involved in the historical context under discussion.

As a paradigm of a wounded healer, parentified therapists may be gifted with therapeutic talents, but also with related vulnerabilities that may have a significant influence on their therapeutic practice. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to explore the impact of parentification on therapeutic practice, especially on the therapeutic skills of empathy and boundary settings. For this purpose, a mixed method design was employed in which 38 trainee psychologists provided self-report data on the constructs of parentification measured by parentification questionnaire (Jurkovic, 1997), empathy, measured by Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1980), and boundary settings, measured by Exploitation Index (Epstein, 1990) in a survey study, while 4 trainee psychologists were interviewed in a separate study. First, the quantitative data were analysed to assess the existence of possible relationships among the variables of parentification, empathy and boundary transgressions by a regression analysis. The results offered significant suggestions for the predictive power of parentification in regard to empathy and boundary transgressions. Following this, a qualitative study analysed the interviews with the 4 trainees using thematic analysis to explore the above relationships and provided a deeper insight, especially for their therapeutic utility. Combining the findings, the current study supported that parentification may first of all catalyse the choice of a psychologist's profession, well as the choice of the psychotherapeutic approach. In regard to the interpersonal skills, parentification may positively impact the development of enhanced levels of empathy, boundary flexibility, and creativity. On the other hand, parentification may also negatively impact on practitioners by making them more vulnerable to enmeshed therapeutic relationships. Especially in the case of destructive parentification, professional support may be needed to minimise the risk for enmeshed relationships, by increasing self-care and self-other differentiation. Clinical implications for parentified therapists were also discussed.

This thesis explores the desistance promoting potential of professional relationships between male youth workers and young men involved in violence. It adopts a psychosocial methodological and analytic frame to examine a common-sense proposition: that male workers who are colloquially described as 'down with the kids' are especially well suited to engage and mentor young men involved in violence. Five intensely observed longitudinal case studies follow the trajectories of young men and their youth workers over six years. Each case utilises different conceptual tools to offer different insights into their relationships, including: the presence of gendered, generational and unconscious dynamics between young men and male workers; how reciprocal identification can lead to male youth workers not seeing how young men neutralise their violent offending; worker reflexivity as a pre-requisite of the youth work role in late modernity and how this can be fractured by the biographical experiences of too-wounded healers; the importance of male workers with resources of street-social and masculine capital creating a third space where they and young men can examine their own intersectional identities, and; how worker self-disclosure can shift doer done-to dynamics within professional relationships and organisations. The thesis concludes that the male worker as mentor and role model discourse generates both assets and potential shortcomings in terms of desistance promotion. Embodying a 'down with the kids' worker subjectivity can provide a ready route into youthful, masculine subcultures and a means for male workers to meet their own need for generativity. But without proper training and supervision there is a risk that workers with their own history of offending can be ineffective at best, and at worst descend into professional burn-out. In this sense being down with the kids can lead inadvertently to workers going down with the kids. Reconceptualising youth work relationships incorporating psychodynamic and post structural perspectives (i.e. as psychosocial) offers a way to work through these issues productively and can usefully inform youth work practice and policy.

Thesis (M.A. (Folklore)) --University of Limpopo, 2011 / The mini-dissertation investigated the ways in which one qualifies as a traditional healer in Tshivenda. The study has discovered that a person cannot choose to become a traditional healer, he or she is chosen by the ancestors into this profession and they make their wishes known to the person concerned through continuous illness and dreams. Nowadays, there is an increased number of traditional healers in the community. It seems as if the community is confused as to whether all these healers have gone through the proper ways of becoming a traditional healer in Tshivenḓa or they are largely interested in the economic gain.

MAAS / Department of African Studies / This study explored into the effects of traditional medicine on reproductive health of rural women. Negative reports associated with traditional medicine due to bogus traditional practitioners expose most women to the harmful consequences of concoctions supplied and administered on them. However, factors such as people’s great confidence in traditional medicine and high costs associated with conventional Western medical treatments lead most rural women to traditional medicine usage. The study examined women’s perspectives on traditional medicine, factors which led rural women to use traditional medicine, meanings that people make about women and reproductive health, reproductive health implications of using traditional medicine as well as remedies for ensuring that traditional medicine is safe for women’s reproductive health. The study was grounded on the critical and socio-cultural theory. An explorative qualitative research was used. Data was collected through open-ended questions, observation as well as focus group interviews and then analysed using the thematic analysis method. The study participants consisted of rural women, traditional healers, elderly people and Western-trained doctors who were all sampled using non-probability sampling methods. The findings of the study showed that African traditional medicine plays a pivotal role in reproductive health care by offering readily available, cheap, culturally-oriented and accessible health care for most rural women. However, it was noted that the use of African traditional medicine by unqualified practitioners and the incorrect usage of the medicine by patients resulted in negative results that could lead to death or barrenness. Thus, the study recommends an introduction of a regulatory framework on the production, storage, use and trade of African traditional medicine. / NRF

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Thesis topic "Witch cults and alternative treatment methods in equatorial Africa" deals with the problems of shamanism and treatment methods in Africa, mainly in the equatorial area. Introduces witchcraft and compares it to shamanism, healing and other methods of the African aboriginal tribes and specific healing methods which are practised by shamans, medicine men and healers. At the same time it compares these methods to the quality of the medical services which are available in the given area. Practical part shows research solutions analysing the relations of the citizens from an Ugandan village Nyakyera and surrounding areas to healthcare and their attitude towards the shaman healers.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:21:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LUENE GONCALVES DOS SANTOS.pdf: 1685326 bytes, checksum: 697f9e237ddaa4a2f04f2c038c6bebab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-22 / This paper aims to understand the popular practices of benzimento, against scientific knowledge. The practice of benzimento is a ritual of healing through faith, built from the symbolic universe, rich in detail and singularities. Our objective was to analyze the practice of healing from the office of faith healers. To this end, we will have the testimony ten healers; six of the cities of Pires do Rio and four in the city of Palmelo. Fundamental characters for the composition of this study, through their life stories and experiences with members benzeção revealed aspects of religious healing ritual. The cases observed during field work also seek to expose as other religious denominations are articulated by healers for the reworking of its therapeutic practices. / Este trabalho tem como proposta compreender as práticas populares do benzimento, frente ao conhecimento científico. A prática do benzimento é um ritual de cura por meio da fé, construído a partir do universo simbólico, rico em detalhes e singularidades. O nosso objetivo foi analisar a prática de cura a partir do ofício das benzedeiras. Para tanto, contaremos com o depoimento de dez benzedeiras; seis das cidades de Pires do Rio e quatro da cidade de Palmelo. Personagens fundamentais para a composição deste estudo, por meio de suas histórias de vida e experiências com a benzeção revelaram aspectos integrantes deste ritual de cura religiosa. Os casos observados durante o trabalho de campo procuram também expor como outras denominações religiosas são articuladas pelas benzedeiras, para a reelaboração de suas práticas terapêuticas.

It is undeniable that literature reflects much about the society that produces it. The give-and-take relationship between a society and its literature is especially interesting when medieval texts are considered. Because most medieval plots and characters are variants of existing stories, the ways that the portrayals change has the potential to reveal much about the differences between medieval societies separated by distance and time. Changes to the treatment of these recurring characters and their stories can reveal how the attitudes of medieval society changed over time. Perceptions of magic and attitudes toward its female practitioners, both real and fictional, changed drastically throughout the Middle Ages among clergy members and the ruling class. Historically, as attitudes toward women became more negative, they were increasingly prohibited from receiving a formal education and from gaining or maintaining positions traditionally associated with feminine magical power, such as healer, midwife, or wise woman. As the power of the Church grew and attitudes changed throughout the Middle Ages, women’s power in almost all areas of life experienced a proportional decrease. Using a combination of historical and literary sources, this paper will explore whether this decrease in power is evident in literary portrayals of magical female characters in medieval literature. Specifically, it will examine the agency and potency, or the intrinsic motivation and effectiveness within the story, respectively, of female characters within medieval narratives, comparing the characters to their earlier iterations. This research will offer a unique perspective on the roles of magical women in medieval literature.