This research investigated the transformative and extraordinary experiences of nurse healers. The broad aim of the research was to promote the role of the healer in nursing by providing data on the experiences specific to nurse healers’ evolution as healers. The research was theoretically informed by van Manen (1990, 1984) and utilised hermeneutic phenomenology. Van Manen’s emphasis on writing as the key element of phenomenology in lived experience research was employed to bring forth a sense of lived immediacy and aesthetic colour essential to phenomenological understanding. The thesis was also theoretically aligned with the conceptual model of nursing as a caring-healing profession, developed by Jean Watson (1999, 1990a, 1988, 1985a). In particular, this research drew on Watson’s explicit connection of nursing with healing and nursing practice with transformational, transpersonal and esoteric insights. There were eleven nurse (nine women and two men) participants in the study. All participants identified strongly as healers. Selection was based on how long, and important to the individual was their commitment to being a healer. The data collection method used was semi structured interview with a predominant focus on storytelling. The overarching theme of ‘Walking Two Worlds’ was identified, and within that five essential themes were uncovered: (1) Belonging & Connecting; (2) Opening to Spirit; (3) Summoning; (4) Wounding & Healing Journey; and (5) Living as a Healer. Implications for nursing discussed include the need for the profession to provide support to nurse healers as they encounter challenging experiences and to allow for ontological flexibility regarding the esoteric aspects of human/spiritual experience revealed by this research. Further the need to extend the understanding invoked by healing beyond the obvious and opening vistas into experience which have been previously repudiated by domineering, narrow and spirit-denying powers in our society is also discussed.

This research investigated the transformative and extraordinary experiences of nurse healers. The broad aim of the research was to promote the role of the healer in nursing by providing data on the experiences specific to nurse healers’ evolution as healers. The research was theoretically informed by van Manen (1990, 1984) and utilised hermeneutic phenomenology. Van Manen’s emphasis on writing as the key element of phenomenology in lived experience research was employed to bring forth a sense of lived immediacy and aesthetic colour essential to phenomenological understanding. The thesis was also theoretically aligned with the conceptual model of nursing as a caring-healing profession, developed by Jean Watson (1999, 1990a, 1988, 1985a). In particular, this research drew on Watson’s explicit connection of nursing with healing and nursing practice with transformational, transpersonal and esoteric insights. There were eleven nurse (nine women and two men) participants in the study. All participants identified strongly as healers. Selection was based on how long, and important to the individual was their commitment to being a healer. The data collection method used was semi structured interview with a predominant focus on storytelling. The overarching theme of ‘Walking Two Worlds’ was identified, and within that five essential themes were uncovered: (1) Belonging & Connecting; (2) Opening to Spirit; (3) Summoning; (4) Wounding & Healing Journey; and (5) Living as a Healer. Implications for nursing discussed include the need for the profession to provide support to nurse healers as they encounter challenging experiences and to allow for ontological flexibility regarding the esoteric aspects of human/spiritual experience revealed by this research. Further the need to extend the understanding invoked by healing beyond the obvious and opening vistas into experience which have been previously repudiated by domineering, narrow and spirit-denying powers in our society is also discussed.

Thesis (MA (Counselling Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

The study is an explication of the representation of traditional and faith healers in Zimbabwean newspapers. This is done through analysing newspaper articles from selected Zimbabwean Newspapers. Kwayedza, Umthunywa, The Herald, NewsDay, Daily News and two tabloids which are Bulawayo Metropolitan (B-Metro) and Harare Metropolitan (H-Metro) are the papers that were used in the study to pursue the purpose of the study. The study is guided by the Afrocentricity and the extended pragma-dialectic theory. The theories allow the study to explore the issue of traditional and faith healers in line with the political, economic and the social context which shape the system in which they find themselves. The study recognises that traditional healing is the father of all healing systems in Africa. Faith healing and Western medicine are both colonial phenomena; they came into limelight following the colonisation of Africa thereby giving African countries a three-tier health system that comprises of traditional healers, faith healers and medical doctors. The research adopts a qualitative research paradigm. Data for the research is extracted from interviews, critical discourse analysis of newspaper articles and questionnaires. The study established that traditional healers are diabolically represented in Zimbabwean newspapers and this is because of Eurocentrism which is still rife in the minds of Zimbabweans. Eurocentrism depicts people of the African race as inferior, uncivilised, barbaric, savages and chaotic and this annihilates and dehumanises Africans. Faith healers on the other hand receive both positive and negative representation. Positive representation is necessitated by the idea that they are aligned to Christianity and negative representation emanates from the idea that their healing systems embrace the African understanding of disease and illness. The study concludes that the stories are a reflection of the idea that both the media and the minds of the people involved in news production are still held in colonialism. It is therefore concluded that media representation of traditional and faith healers is colonised. The study therefore advocates for the centering of the African in newspaper discourse about traditional and faith healers. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo desta investigação é responder como a prece (oração ou reza), na qualidade de enunciado linguístico, tem eficácia curativa. Saber o porquê de o rito da benzedura apensa à reza operacionaliza a cura terapêutica de males de origem cultural, tais como mau-olhado, quebranto, espinhela caída, e outras. Para responder a essas indagações, esta pesquisa se fundamenta na obra How to do things with words, a qual deu origem à teoria de atos de fala de Austin (1962/1990) e divulgada, posteriormente, por John Searle (1969) com a obra Speech Acts. Mesmo assim esta teoria dos atos de fala apresentava imperfeições. Por isso a teoria dos atos de fala foi ampliada para dar conta dos diversos tipos de atos linguísticos sejam eles constatativos ou performativos; assim, todos os atos de fala têm uma força ilocucionária. Ou seja, os atos de fala na nova pragmática são todos performáticos (felizes ou infelizes, conforme Austin). Nesta nova pragmática, a performance da linguagem foi conceituada, inicialmente, por Austin e, posteriormente, por diversos autores como Derrida, Rajagopalan, Paulo Ottoni, dentre outros. De fato, a performatividade da linguagem é o que a determina através do ato locucionário. Na performatividade (fala-ação), o sujeito (self), ao realizar um ato de fala específico, não é suficiente sozinho de realizar a ação, mas tão somente se ele for o sujeito adequado para isto. Portanto, é nesta perspectiva que esta investigação perseguirá apreender a eficácia simbólica da reza. Assim sendo, este trabalho objetiva identificar os efeitos simbólicos da reza sobre o padecente-cliente, sob o olhar da eficácia simbólica de Lévi-Strauss, em consonância com a performatividade de Austin; ou seja, a reza é um ato de fala performático, logo é um ato de fala eficaz contra doenças delimitadas socialmente (doenças originadas de feitiço). Sob a perspectiva da teoria de John Austin, os efeitos simbólicos da reza estão relacionados ao ritual da benzedura e à fé, e que produzem cura, a qual é concretizada pela ação das rezadeiras. A metodologia empregada neste estudo foi a da revisão sistemática ou bibliográfica, que tem como premissa estabelecer um levantamento do estado da arte na pragmática. Enfim, numa perspectiva holística de saúde, a reza pode ser usada como complementaridade entre práticas terapêuticas com lógicas diferentes - biomedicina. A reza como eficácia simbólica é um instrumento de cura usado pelas rezadeiras como fruto da cultura nordestina, deve e pode ser usada conforme o contexto sociocultural. De fato, o que se deve fazer é harmonizar esses dois sistemas, pois ambos são produtos da cultura brasileira e todos cuidam da saúde do povo. / The purpose of this research is to answer the question how prayer, as linguistic utterance, has curative effectiveness. Knowing why the benzedura rite attached to pray makes operational the therapeutic healing of cultural origin illnesses. And in that case, the cure of diseases caused by the spell, such as evil eye, weakness, brokenness, stickleback fallen, and others. In order to answer these questions, this research is founded on the work How to do things with words, which gave birth to theory of speech acts of John Austin (1962), and whereby the act of "saying is doing." According to John Austin's theory, in fact, the symbolic effects of prayer are related to the ritual of prayer and faith, which produce healing through prayer ritual that is performed by traditional healer, and those who seek them and believe in her ritual. Notwithstanding this theory was further developed by John Searle (1969) with the work Speech Acts. Even so this theory of speech acts was flawed; this is why it was expanded to deal with the various types of linguistic acts whether constative or performative; so all speech acts have an illocutionary force. That is, the speech acts in the new pragmatic are all performatic acts (happy or unhappy according to Austin). The performance of language in this new pragmatic was conceptualized by several authors as Derrida, Rajagopalan, and Paul Ottoni, among others. In this new pragmatic performance of the language which was conceptualized initially by Austin and later by several authors as Derrida, Rajagopalan, Paul Ottoni, among others. In fact, the performativity of language is what determines through locutionary act. In performativity (speech-action), the subject (self), to perform an act of specific speech is not enough by himself to perform the action, but only if he is the right guy for this. It is therefore with this in mind that this investigation will chase to apprehend the symbolic effectiveness of prayer. As such this paper aims to identify the symbolic effects of prayer on the suffering client, from the perspective of 'symbolic effectiveness' of Lévi- Strauss, in accordance with the performativity of Austin; namely the prayer is a performatic speech act, so it is an act of effectively speech against socially bounded diseases (diseases arising spell). John Austin's theory points out that, in fact, the symbolic effects of prayer are related to the ritual of benzedura and faith, and they produce healing, which it is achieved by the action of rezadeiras. The methodology used in this study was the systematic or bibliographical review, which has as its premise set up a survey of the state of art in pragmatic. Finally, a holistic health perspective, the prayer can be used as complementarity between therapeutic approaches with a different logic such as biomedicine, among others. The prayer as symbolic efficacy is a healing instrument used by rezadeiras (Brazilian women healers) as a result of the northeastern Brazilian culture. It should and can be used according to the sociocultural context. Indeed, what it should be done is to align these two systems because both are products of Brazilian culture and all take care of healthcare of the people.

Social change in South Africa brings to light the multiplicity of world-views operating in our society, which individuals encountering a variety of social contexts are faced with. This raises questions about the choices black South Africans face in response to influences from Western and traditional African culture. This issue was approached through examining helpseeking choices made between different health care sectors that stem from different world-views. This would indicate whether individuals are drawing on a variety of belief systems. The sources of their beliefs are put into context by looking at the communities of practice that influence their local knowledge. Help-seeking is also influenced by the identities the individual may ascribe to, which are derived from the multiple positions held by them in different social contexts. In this research the use of health-care sectors by four black women attending psychotherapy is examined. Their use of these sectors reflects a potential multiplicity of world views. Semistructured interviews were conducted, focusing on participants' prior experience of different help options, and their current perceptions of traditional African healing and psychology. The texts were analysed using a qualitative hermeneutic method, the reading guide. Data was looked at through three main themes, the individual's relationship to the health care sectors, their knowledge of different world views, and the identities they adopted which may be influential in their choice of a healer. It was found that in two participants there was some movement away from traditional beliefs, with one rejecting the traditional healers who did not help her, once she has discovered therapy, and another identifying herself completely with Western medicine. In contrast, one participant illustrated a rediscovery of traditional healing, whilst still attending psychotherapy. This suggests that shifts in knowledge are not necessarily away from traditional beliefs. It was also found that the two participants who had experienced a broader variety of social contexts and identified with multiple belief systems, tended to use a variety of Western and traditional healing sources and selected the healing option they felt was most appropriate to a particular problem. It is argued therefore that having a variety of knowledge and beliefs places individuals in a more powerful position to determine their choice of action than those with a limited range of knowledge.

This dissertation explores discourses about culture and illness in the talk of mental health professionals and indigenous healers. It represents an attempt to situate the issue of indigenous healing in South Africa within a particular strand of critical discourse analytic research. In the context of current deliberations on the value, or otherwise, of indigenous healing in a changing health and specifically mental health system, the talk of both mental health practitioners and indigenous healers as they conceptualise “disorder”, and discuss possibilities for collaboration, is chosen as a specific focus for this study. Disputes over what constitutes “disorder” both within mental health, and between mental health and indigenous healing are an important site in which the negotiation of power relations between mental health professionals and indigenous healers is played out. The results of this study suggest that despite the construction of cogent commendations for the inclusion of indigenous healing in mental health, it remains largely marginalised within talk about mental health practice. While this study reproduces to some extent the marginalisation of indigenous healing discourse, it also examines some of the discursive practices and methodological difficulties implicated in its marginalisation. However, in the context of “cultural pride strategies” associated with talk about an African Renaissance, indigenous healing may also function as a site of assertion of African power and resistance in its construction as an essentially African enterprise. At the same time, it may achieve disciplinary effects consonant with cultural pride strategies, in constructing afflictions in terms of neglect of, or disloyalty to cultural tradition. These results are discussed in terms of the methodological difficulties associated with interviewing and discourse analysis of translated texts, which contributes to difficulties with articulating indigenous healing discourse in a way that challenges the dominant psychiatric discourses implicated in its marginalisation within mental health. It concludes with recommendations for future research which addresses indigenous healing discourse in its own terms, and examines its operation as a disciplinary apparatus in South African society.

A dissertation submitted in full compliance with the requirements for a Masters Degree in Technology: Nursing at Durban Institute of Technology, 2005. / There has been an increase in child/girl rape in South Africa, Statistics of child rape have shown that a child was being raped every 25 minutes in South Africa (Child Protection Unit, S.AP.S., 1999). The numbers of child rapes has increased from 12% in 1998 to 19,94% in 2001 (Taylor, 2002). Reports indicated that in some instances, child rape was being carried out as a cure for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) (Kufwa, 1998). / M

Orientador: Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T05:40:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Labate_BeatrizCaiuby_D.pdf: 4066346 bytes, checksum: 0d87758fb5c0a44afa45feed897d0f32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Esta tese analisa a relação de estrangeiros com o vegetalismo peruano. Contempla os forasteiros que viajam ao Peru em busca de experiências de consumo da ayahuasca, gringos que se tornaram eles próprios curanderos e ayahuasqueros peruanos que viajam para oferecer workshops a clientes de classe média na Europa e nos EUA. O foco da pesquisa não recai no turismo da ayahuasca ligado a pacotes de viagem e lodges sofisticados em Iquitos, mas em centros de ayahuasca em Pucallpa, onde os estrangeiros participam de cerimônias e dietas de plantas, em busca de estados alterados de consciência, autoconhecimento, cura, experiências místicas, contato com a natureza e com culturas tradicionais, ou por simples curiosidade. Analisando as trajetórias e atividades dos vários curanderos, incluindo indígenas, mestiços pobres, peruanos de classe média e gringos, a tese mapeia a expansão, diversificação e internacionalização do vegetalismo peruano. O estudo identifica os contornos de redes e circuitos transnacionais que promovem a migração e o fluxo de pessoas e ?tecnologias sagradas? em escala global. Essas técnicas e conhecimentos articulados são progressivamente formalizados e institucionalizados, representando um hibridismo entre xamanismo, ciência e serviços. Argumenta-se que esse fenômeno não deve ser compreendido como sendo meramente a comodificação da espiritualidade indígena ou de neocolonialismo, mas como um produto de estratégias locais deliberadas para adaptar-se a condições socioeconômicas cambiantes. As negociações entre o mundo dos gringos e suas expectativas e as tradições locais (onde a bruxaria desempenha papel central) são realizadas sob condições hierárquicas diferenciadas e, frequentemente, envolvem tensões. São operadas traduções criativas de ambos os lados. As referências estrangeiras são dinamicamente incorporadas e reapropriadas nos termos da lógica do vegetalismo. Neste sentido, poder-se-ia dizer que as atuais modificações introduzidas no vegetalismo peruano representam uma espécie de continuidade do seu processo histórico de formação e síntese originais entre diferentes tradições étnicas indígenas e elementos cristãos. De qualquer maneira, não é mais possível considerar a formação local dos curanderos separada de suas interações com os estrangeiros ou dessas articulações entre o local e o global / Abstract: This thesis analyzes the relationship of foreigners to Peruvian vegetalismo. It contemplates outsiders traveling to Peru in search of ayahuasca-consuming experiences, gringos who themselves became curanderos and Peruvian ayahuasqueros who travel to hold workshops for urban middle-class clients in Europe and the USA. The research does not focus on ayahuasca tourism linked to travel packages and sophisticated lodges in Iquitos but on retreat centers in Pucallpa where outsiders join ceremonies and plant diets, in search of altered states of consciousness, self-knowledge, healing, mystic experiences, contact with nature and with traditional cultures, or simply because of curiosity. Through the analysis of the trajectories and activities of various curanderos, including indigenous, poor mestizo, middle-class Peruvian, and gringos, the study charts the expansion, diversification, and internationalization of Peruvian vegetalismo. The thesis identifies the contours of transnational networks and circuits that promote the migration and flux of people and ?sacred technologies? at a global scale. These articulated techniques and knowledges are progressively formalized and institutionalized, representing a hybridism between shamanism, science and service. It is argued that this phenomenon should not be understood as merely commoditization of indigenous spirituality, or neocolonialism, but as a product of deliberate local strategies to adapt to changing socio-economic conditions. The negotiations between the world of the gringos and their expectations and the local traditions (where sorcery plays a central role) are done under different hierarchical conditions, and frequently involve tensions. Creative translations are performed on both sides. The foreign references are dynamically incorporated and reappropriated under the logic of vegetalismo. In this sense, it could be said that the current modifications introduced in Peruvian vegetalismo represent some sort of continuity with its historical process of formation and original synthesis between different indigenous ethnic traditions and Christian elements. In any case, it is no longer possible to consider the local formation of the curanderos apart from their interactions with foreigners, or these articulations between the local and the global / Doutorado / Antropologia / Doutor em Antropologia Social

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