Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2005. / Title from title page screen, viewed on April 16, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Robert McLaughlin (chair), Lynn Worsham, Sally Parry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-331) and abstract. Also available in print.

Syfte: Undersöka möjliga metoder till att finna matglädje vid ätstörningar samt undersöka hur användbara dessa metoder kan vara för människor med ätstörningar både i och utanför behandling. Bakgrund: Ätstörningar är ett växande folkhälsoproblem och ett område där det krävs mer uppmärksamhet och forskning för att öka förståelsen och kunskapen av ätstörningar, samt även för att kunna öka förebyggandet och behandling av dessa sjukdomar. Denna uppsats inriktar sig på ätstörningar och matglädje. Det är oerhört viktigt att hitta glädjen för mat när man har en ätstörning för att kunna nå ett friskare liv och ett friskare tänkesätt kring mat och sin egen kropp. Denna uppsats har undersökt möjliga metoder som kan användas för att hjälpa människor med ätstörningar att finna matglädje. En studie har genomförts på Capio Anorexi Center i Malmö som fokuserade på hur personalen arbetar för att hjälpa patienter att finna glädje för mat under behandling, samt hur de arbetar för att förmedla mat på ett positivt sätt för sina patienter. Metod: Litteraturstudier genomfördes både innan och efter undersökningen på Capio Anorexi Center. Undersökningen bestod av kvalitativa halvstrukturerade intervjuer med två av personalen på Capio Anorexi Center, samt med en dietist och en anonym person som har lidit av ätstörningar och gått i behandling. Tre av intervjuerna genomfördes med ljudinspelning och en intervju genomfördes via mejl. Varje intervju varade i cirka 45 minuter. Intervjuerna sammanställdes genom att först skriva av de inspelade intervjuerna och sedan kategorisades svaren för varje intervju till relevanta områden. Därefter analyserades och jämfördes detta med litteratur som böcker, rapporter, vetenskapliga artiklar samt elektroniska källor som var relaterade till matglädje och ätstörningar. Resultat: Elva metoder har undersökts och presenterats i denna uppsats som kan vara användbara till att finna matglädje både i och utanför behandling för de som behöver stöd: att våga, pedagogiska måltider, att äta regelbundet, varierat och planera måltider, att tillaga och servera aptitliga och lockande måltider, mindfulness och mindfulness eating, måltidsmiljö och måltidens sociala betydelse, nutritionsbehandling, saperemetoden, att äta lugnt och avslappnat, måltidsundervisning via en video- och ljuduppspelning vid måltider samt att stänga ute myter, bantning och skönhetsideal. Slutsats: Elva möjliga metoder som kan vara användbara till att finna matglädje har funnits. Detta genom förstudier med litteratur, en undersökning på Capio Anorexi Center och intervjuer, samt genom en analys och jämförelser mellan intervjuerna och litteratur som relaterade till ätstörningar och matglädje. Dessa metoder kan vara möjliga att använda för att kunna återfå ett friskare tankesätt kring mat och måltider samt för att kunna finna glädje för mat. Att finna matglädjen vid ätstörningar är ett steg mot ett friskare liv, dock för att kunna bli helt frisk från en ätstörning krävs det att dessa metoder kombineras med andra olika terapiformer, då det är viktigt att även arbeta med bland annat självkänsla och självförtroende, samt eventuellt andra svåra problem och symtom. / Background: Eating disorders are a growing public health concern which requires more attention and research to increase the understanding and prevention of eating disorders. This paper focuses on eating disorders and its relation to the joy of food. It is very important to find joy for food when suffering from an eating disorder to achieve a healthier life and healthier thinking around food and the body. This paper has examined possible methods that can be used for treating people with eating disorders to enjoy food. The study was conducted at Capio Anorexia Center in Malmö, a daycare clinic for eating disorders, and the study was focused on how the staff works to help patients find joy for food during treatment, and how they work to express food in a positive way to their patients. Methods: Literature studies were carried out before and after the study at Capio Anorexia Center. Qualitative half structured interviews were also carried out with two of the staff at Capio Anorexia Center, and with a dietitian and an anonymous person who has suffered from an eating disorder and received treatment. Three of the interviews were conducted with sound recording and the other one was conducted via email. Each interview lasted about 45 minutes. The interviews were compiled by first writing of the recorded interviews and then the answers for each interview were categorized to relevant fields. An analysis and comparison of these interviews to various literatures like books, reports, scientific papers and internet sources related to enjoying food and eating disorders were also carried out. Results: Eleven methods were found that may be useful to find joy for food both in treatment and outside of treatment for those who need support: daring, educational meals, eating regularly, varied and plan meals, cook and serve appealing meals, mindfulness and mindfulness eating, eating environment and social importance when eating, nutritional therapy, the “sapere-method”, eating slow and relaxed, the use of vodcast during meals and to keep out myths, dieting and beauty ideals. Conclusions: Eleven possible methods that may be useful to find joy for food have been found. This by preliminary studies with literature, a study at Capio Anorexia Center and interviews, and also by analyzing and comparing the interviews with literature related to eating disorders and enjoying food. The eleven methods described may be useful when regaining joy for food and a healthier thinking when it comes to food and meal situations. An important step in recovering from an eating disorder is to find pleasure when eating; therefore these methods can be possible tools to help people with eating disorders to find the joy for food. However, to reach a healthy life free from an eating disorder these methods described in this paper has to be combined with a variety of other therapies, because it is also important to work with self-esteem, self-confidence, and other symptoms and problems of the eating disorder.

Among women in North America, body dissatisfaction is prevalent and well documented. Women are often unhappy with their bodies and strive to change their bodies to fit the dominant cultural ideal of beauty and femininity. Within this context, in which women are expected to focus tremendous resources, time, and energy on bodily striving and body dissatisfaction, some women are able to resist these expectations. They experience joy with their bodies—joy that is not contingent on their appearance, size, or weight. With respect to women’s embodied experiences of joy, a number of significant gaps exist in the research literature. The current study examined women’s experiences of embodied joy through the use of qualitative research methods, including individual interviews and a focus group. A feminist constructivist grounded theory frame was utilized. The findings of this analysis indicated the presence of four core dimensions of women’s joyful body experiences as a form of resistance to bodily dissatisfaction. The first core dimension addressed the experience of embodied joy, which included attunement, growth, liberation, and thriving. The second core dimension addressed participants’ active creation of environments that nurtured joy, including: creating spaces that facilitated embodied joy, creating internal openness to the experience of joy, and seeking supportive social relationships. The third core dimension addressed enacting joy in the context of resistance and struggle, specifically when navigating the imposition of the other’s external gaze. This core dimension included the themes of media deconstruction, disengagement from problematic relationships, personal practices of resistance, and critical political consciousness. The fourth core dimension involved enacting joy in the context of resistance and struggle as a journey towards joy, which included reclaimed childhood experiences, disruption and reconnection, and guiding other girls and women. The present study has implications for clinical work as well as for health promotion. Ultimately, women’s experiences of embodied joy both reflected their resistance to cultural dictates and further enabled them to resist the dictate of bodily dissatisfaction.

Among women in North America, body dissatisfaction is prevalent and well documented. Women are often unhappy with their bodies and strive to change their bodies to fit the dominant cultural ideal of beauty and femininity. Within this context, in which women are expected to focus tremendous resources, time, and energy on bodily striving and body dissatisfaction, some women are able to resist these expectations. They experience joy with their bodies—joy that is not contingent on their appearance, size, or weight. With respect to women’s embodied experiences of joy, a number of significant gaps exist in the research literature. The current study examined women’s experiences of embodied joy through the use of qualitative research methods, including individual interviews and a focus group. A feminist constructivist grounded theory frame was utilized. The findings of this analysis indicated the presence of four core dimensions of women’s joyful body experiences as a form of resistance to bodily dissatisfaction. The first core dimension addressed the experience of embodied joy, which included attunement, growth, liberation, and thriving. The second core dimension addressed participants’ active creation of environments that nurtured joy, including: creating spaces that facilitated embodied joy, creating internal openness to the experience of joy, and seeking supportive social relationships. The third core dimension addressed enacting joy in the context of resistance and struggle, specifically when navigating the imposition of the other’s external gaze. This core dimension included the themes of media deconstruction, disengagement from problematic relationships, personal practices of resistance, and critical political consciousness. The fourth core dimension involved enacting joy in the context of resistance and struggle as a journey towards joy, which included reclaimed childhood experiences, disruption and reconnection, and guiding other girls and women. The present study has implications for clinical work as well as for health promotion. Ultimately, women’s experiences of embodied joy both reflected their resistance to cultural dictates and further enabled them to resist the dictate of bodily dissatisfaction.

Orientador: Amnéris Ângela Maroni / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T14:39:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BarrenecheCorrales_Johana_D.pdf: 3694140 bytes, checksum: ed33de511c3eab747c6772d4d110178a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Para W. R. Bion, psicanalista inglês, pensar é diferente do conhecer; pensar é "pensar as emoções" e só somos capazes de pensar na medida em que toleramos as frustrações. A partir do trabalho dos Doutores da Alegria com crianças hospitalizadas e sob a teoria psicanalítica de Bion, "Capacidade Negativa", nos debruçamos sobre possíveis cruzamentos entre riso, alegria e pensamento. Riso e alegria são emoções que permitem passagens, certa compreensão. Acontecem, às vezes, de maneira plural, no encontro com o outro; são também formas de olhar para o mundo, para si, uma maneira de abrir sentido para a vida. Talvez só o ser humano tenha capacidade e crescimento emocional para o paradoxal, para suportar a ambiguidade, a indefinição. É aí que o riso e a alegria - dos Doutores da Alegria -, habitam e florescem. Somos finitos, mas temos familiaridade, de maneira inexplicável, com o infinito. É nessa familiaridade que as perguntas aparecem, no desejo de "desvendar? o misterioso, o belo, o mágico. Para compreendermos o riso e a alegria - e também para rir - temos que acolher o paradoxo. Quanto mais suportarmos o negativo, a dúvida, a incerteza, a luz e a sombra, a dor, a perda, o ridículo, maior será nossa capacidade de rir. O ser humano é movimento, trânsito, lugar de instabilidade, é incompletude. Com a ideia de "alegria pensante' queremos apreender o riso, a alegria e a capacidade psíquica que lhe é afim. Só ri, na modernidade líquida, quem conquistou e é capaz de suportar o paradoxo, o negativo. Tentamos compreender isso a partir de algumas aproximações entre antropologia e psicanálise / Abstract: To W. R. Bion, an english psychoanalyst, thinking is different from knowing; thinking is "thinking the emotions" and we are only capable of thinking as we tolerate the frustrations. From the work conducted by Doutores da Alegria (Doctors of Joy) with hospitalized children and under Bion?s psychoanalytic theory, the 'Negative Capability', we have paid close attention to possible intersections between laughter, joy and thought. Laughter and joy are emotions that allow changes, some understanding. They sometimes happen differently in the encounter with the other; they are also ways of looking at the world and at ourselves, a way to open meaning for life. Perhaps only humans have the capacity and the emotional growth for the paradox, to bear the ambiguity, the vagueness. That is where the laughter and joy - of the Doctors of Joy - live and flourish. We are finite, but we have familiarity, inexplicably, with the infinite. It is in this familiarity that questions arise in the desire to 'unravel' what is mysterious, beautiful, and magical. To understand laughter and joy - and to laugh - we have to embrace the paradox. The longer we endure the negative, the doubt, the uncertainty, the light and the shadow, the pain, the loss, the ridiculous, the greater our ability to laugh will be. The human being is movement, transit, place of instability and incompleteness. With the idea of ' thinking joy' we want to apprehend laughter, joy and the psychic ability that is related to him/her. In the liquid modernity, only those who have conquered and are capable of bearing the paradox, the negative, are able to laugh. We try to understand it from some links between anthropology and psychoanalysis / Doutorado / Ciencias Sociais / Doutora em Ciências Sociais

New Orleans has been the subject of a narrative of exoticization throughout much of its history as an American space. The dominant trend in representation casts this city as a lush site of strangeness, intercultural confusion, enchantment, and, occasionally, an alternatively transformative or annihilative freedom. My project travels across genres and critical frameworks to explore the history and development of the narrative of New Orleans’ exoticism in literary and public discourse. The narrative’s evocative rhetoric, including the frequent appearance of the term “jungle,” and its emphasis on both charm and degeneracy encode larger doubts over the ability of the city to fit national ideals. These codes draw on a negative racial imaginary and manifest as sentiments of anxiety and desire over the crossing of nationally normative racial and sexual boundaries. Although the generative position of the narrative has gone largely unrecognized, it surfaces in multiple contexts and in concert with larger discursive trends, such as 19th century interests in racially exclusive American nationalism and 20th century fears of a racialized, sexualized other. This project pays particular attention to the articulations of the narrative in George Washington Cable’s novel The Grandissimes and in the New Orleans-based works of Tennessee Williams. It also explores challenges to the narrative offered by contemporary poets Brenda Marie Osbey and Joy Harjo. Additionally, it investigates the recycling of the narrative in contemporary political discourse. / text

<p>During this life-history I met a person who was enthusiastic in her personality. You can see Marianne’s special and unique personality very well because of the method I have chosen. The purpose of writing about this subject is that children spend most of their time awake in school; thus it is important for me, as an educationalist, to discover the ones that are mistreated. This study is about how I can discover children who are not taken care of. The answer I found wasn’t what I expected when I started this study. The answers I got were hidden in her personal story by being an educationalist human being. Her life has been surrounded with love and consideration just like her work. Being genuinely interested in human beings but above all children has created this altruistic pedagogue Marianne. By putting my literature beside Marianne’s story, it was obvious to me that the only way to discover children that get hurt in life is to be an afflated pedagogue.</p> / <p>Mariannes entusiastiska person som jag fick glädjen att möta och ta del av, löper som en gyllene tråd genom det här arbetet som jag vill delge er. Att Mariannes speciella och unika personlighet kommer fram på det sätt som det gör, beror mycket på valet av metod. Metoden bygger på att man får ta del av en person på ett djupare plan- en livsberättelse. Syftet att skriva om detta ämne är för det är viktigt hur jag som pedagog kan upptäcka de barn som far illa, eftersom barnen tillbringar den största delen av sin vakna tid i skolan. Arbetet handlar om hur jag som pedagog kan se/upptäcka barn som inte mår bra. Jag fick ett svar men det kom inte fram på det sättet jag räknade med. Svaret jag istället möttes av var inlindade i Mariannes engagerade berättelse om sitt liv som pedagog och människa. Jag möttes av en människa vars uppväxt var präglad av kärlek och omtanke som hon senare tagit med sig i sin pedagogik under 40 år. Att vara genuint intresserad av människor, men framför allt av barn har skapat den altruistiska pedagogen. Genom att ställa min litteratur bredvid Mariannes berättelse stod det klart för mig att sättet att upptäcka barn som far illa är att vara en besjälad pedagog.</p>

Many recent experimental studies have shown that some subjects destroy other subjects' incomes without receiving any material benefit, and that they even incur costs to do so. In this paper, we study the boundary conditions of this phenomenon, which is referred to as anti-social behavior. We introduce a four-player destruction game, in which we vary the framing and the presence of another activity, running in parallel to the destruction game. We observe a substantial amount of destruction in the baseline condition without the parallel activity, and with a framing in the spirit of previous destruction experiments. Our results indicate that a parallel activity as well as a framing emphasizing joint ownership of the item that can be destroyed reduces destruction almost to zero. We therefore argue that the emergence of anti-social behavior is highly contingent on the contextual environment. / Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series

Swedish wrestling faces an issue, in that participation seems to decrease after the age of 9. The main purpose of this study is to examine factors that motivate, gives joy and supports adolescents to continue wrestling, with the aim of providing insights that can be useful when striving to retain participant numbers among young wrestlers. The study employs a quantitative method, using a survey to collect empirical data from active wrestlers aged 13-16. The survey yielded 82 responses, which were analyzed through the use of SPSS. The results indicate that friendship, a sense of community, and a desire to perform well during practice sessions and competitions are the most prominent factors listed by the respondents of the study. Furthermore, the study did not find any big differences in the results depending on age or gender. Recommendations for future research include studying wrestlers who are no longer active and investigating whether there is a relationship between their decision to quit and a lack of the produced factors identified within this thesis

Esta tese visa a esmiudar, a partir de uma abordagem marcadamente intratextual, a questão do humor e da alegria em Tutaméia: terceiras estórias de Guimarães Rosa. No primeiro capítulo, apresentam-se considerações mais teóricas e gerais sobre o tema, que aparece, em Rosa, matizado pelas sombras da angústia, da dormência, do trágico; ambos, alegria e humor, espontam de uma hermenêutica inteiramente varada pela consciência do absurdo. No segundo capítulo, discute-se a relação entranhada da própria forma lacunar da obra com esse espírito intransparente, ao mesmo tempo melancólico e venturoso, que a constitui. No último capítulo, interpreta-se o prefácio Aletria e hermenêutica, esquadrinhando os artifícios de composição de parte de suas anedotas, e trazendo à luz a fabulação paradoxal, chistosa e sublime do texto. / This thesis aims to go through, from a markedly intratextual approach, the matter of humour and joy in Tutaméia: third stories by Guimarães Rosa. In the first chapter, rather theoretical and general considerations are presented on the theme that appears, in Rosa, tinted by the shadows of anguish, of dormancy, of the tragic; both, joy and humour altogether, emerging from a hermeneutic which is entirely transpassed by the awareness of the absurd. In the second chapter, is discussed the deeply rooted relationship of the lacunal form itself of this Rosas work with the opaque spirit that constitutes it, melancholic and blissful at the same time. In the last chapter, the preface Aletria and hermeneutics is interpreted, scrutinizing the composition artifices of part of its anecdotes, and bringing some light to the texts paradoxical fabulation, witty and sublime.