<p>Psykisk ohälsa är ett samhällsproblem som kräver mer uppmärksamhet från sjukvårdens sida. En kronisk sjukdom drabbar både patienter och deras livskamrater och präglas av olika förluster som förändrar livet. Förlusterna skapar en klyfta mellan det liv patienter och livskamrater lever och de liv de egentligen vill leva. Det är i denna klyfta som den kroniska sorgen skapas. Kronisk sorg skiljer sig från vanlig sorg då den återkommer i perioder och växlar i intensitet. Syftet med studien var att beskriva upplevelsen av kronisk sorg hos patienter och livskamrater i samband med en kronisk sjukdom. Studien är genomförd som en litteraturstudie där 15 vetenskapliga artiklar samlades in och granskades. Resultatet visar att patienter och livskamrater upplever olika typer förluster, både fysiska, sociala och psykiska. Dessa förluster ligger till grund för upplevelsen av kronisk sorg. Genom att få kunskap om patienter och livskamraters upplevelse av kronisk sorg i samband med kronisk sjukdom kan sjuksköterskan få förståelse för dessa patienter och utifrån det hjälpa dem att hantera sorgen. Kronisk sorg är ett relativt nytt begrepp inom sjukvården och det krävs därför mer forskning för att öka kunskapen om begreppet.</p> / <p>Mental health is a problem in society and it requires more attention from the healthcare side. A chronic disease means that both patients and spouses undergo different periods of losses that change their lives in different ways. These losses create a gap between the patients and spouse’s ongoing lives and the life they really want to live. It is in this gap that the chronic sorrow is created. Chronic sorrow differs from normal grief when it recurs in periods and switches in intensity. The aim of this study was to describe the experience of chronic sorrow in patients and spouses related to a chronic disease. The study was conducted as a literature review where 15 research articles were collected and examined. The results show that patients and spouses experience different types of losses, physical, social and psychological. These losses create their chronic sorrow. By gaining knowledge of patients and spouses experiences of chronic sorrow the nurse can obtain an understanding of their situations and based on that help they cope with grief. Chronic sorrow is a relatively new concept in healthcare and therefore more research is required to increase understanding of the concept. <strong></strong></p>

Psykisk ohälsa är ett samhällsproblem som kräver mer uppmärksamhet från sjukvårdens sida. En kronisk sjukdom drabbar både patienter och deras livskamrater och präglas av olika förluster som förändrar livet. Förlusterna skapar en klyfta mellan det liv patienter och livskamrater lever och de liv de egentligen vill leva. Det är i denna klyfta som den kroniska sorgen skapas. Kronisk sorg skiljer sig från vanlig sorg då den återkommer i perioder och växlar i intensitet. Syftet med studien var att beskriva upplevelsen av kronisk sorg hos patienter och livskamrater i samband med en kronisk sjukdom. Studien är genomförd som en litteraturstudie där 15 vetenskapliga artiklar samlades in och granskades. Resultatet visar att patienter och livskamrater upplever olika typer förluster, både fysiska, sociala och psykiska. Dessa förluster ligger till grund för upplevelsen av kronisk sorg. Genom att få kunskap om patienter och livskamraters upplevelse av kronisk sorg i samband med kronisk sjukdom kan sjuksköterskan få förståelse för dessa patienter och utifrån det hjälpa dem att hantera sorgen. Kronisk sorg är ett relativt nytt begrepp inom sjukvården och det krävs därför mer forskning för att öka kunskapen om begreppet. / Mental health is a problem in society and it requires more attention from the healthcare side. A chronic disease means that both patients and spouses undergo different periods of losses that change their lives in different ways. These losses create a gap between the patients and spouse’s ongoing lives and the life they really want to live. It is in this gap that the chronic sorrow is created. Chronic sorrow differs from normal grief when it recurs in periods and switches in intensity. The aim of this study was to describe the experience of chronic sorrow in patients and spouses related to a chronic disease. The study was conducted as a literature review where 15 research articles were collected and examined. The results show that patients and spouses experience different types of losses, physical, social and psychological. These losses create their chronic sorrow. By gaining knowledge of patients and spouses experiences of chronic sorrow the nurse can obtain an understanding of their situations and based on that help they cope with grief. Chronic sorrow is a relatively new concept in healthcare and therefore more research is required to increase understanding of the concept.

Bakgrund: Kronisk sorg är en icke- patologisk, känslomässig sorg-reaktion relaterad till förluster som uppfyller den sörjandes liv. Att leva med en kronisk sjukdom innebär många förluster som kan göra det svårt att hantera situationen, särskild om sjukdomens progressivitet innebär nya förluster för patienten. Brist på kunskap om kronisk sorg kan medföra att patienter får behandling mot depression men ingen hjälp till att hantera sorgen. Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva patienters upplevelser av kronisk sorg till följd av kronisk sjukdom. Metoden: En systematisk litteraturstudie på vetenskapligt kvalitativt material gjordes med den enligt Evans beskrivna analysmetod på kvalitativ data.  Resultat: Fyra teman framkom: emotionella förluster, kroppen sviker, förlorad framtid och lindrad sorg. Förluster inskränker patienternas frihet att kunna utföra önskade aktiviteter men också planer och drömmar de haft inför framtiden. Genom egna strategier och emotionellt stöd kunde patienter lindra sin sorg och därmed lindra lidandet. Slutsats: Kronisk sorg tar sig uttryck på varierande sätt.  Emotionella upp och nedgångarna upplevs av patienter i relation till deras sjukdom. Motgångar men också påminnelser om att vara olik från friska människor, utlöser sorgen på nytt. Sjuksköterskor behöver vara observanta på patienters mentala välbefinnande och visa empati. / Background: Chronic sorrow is a non-pathological, emotional grief response related to losses that meet de mourners’ life. Living with a chronically illness involves many losses which can make it difficult to manage the situation, especially if the disease progression leads to new losses for the patient. Lack of knowledge about chronic sorrow can lead to a wrong treatment; these patients can be treated for depression but gets no necessary help to deal with their sorrow.  Aim: The aim is to describe the experiences of chronic sorrow in patients with chronic illness. Method: A systematic literature-study based on qualitative science material has been done. Evans analyses-method of qualitative data was chosen.  Results: Four teams developed: emotional losses, the body fails, a lost future and alleviate sorrow. The patient’s freedom is limited because of the losses, therefore whished activities, plans and dreams for the future have been removed. Internal strategies and emotional support could alleviate patients sorrow and therefore alleviate their suffering.  Conclusion: Chronic sorrow was expressed in a verity of ways. The emotional ups and downs were related to the patients illnesses. Adversities but also reminders of being different from healthy humans awake their sorrow over and over again. Nurses needs to be aware of the patients’ mental condition and show empathy to these patients.

A project around loss and absence. This work is a reflection on tradition, mourning and the importance to remember. Based on how crafts relate to society in ceremonial contexts by being a tool to communicate with others. By having a reflective relation with tradition this fiber works intend to transfer the innate poetic language of symbolic materials used in rituals around death and commemoration in Mexico into new forms through specific repetitive actions in the making. Delving into the unique physical qualities of onion skin, sugar, beeswax, corn husks and paper. Seeking to evoke an emotion by diverting our perception of ordinary materials.

L’élégie chez Rousseau rassemble les époques, elle rend le sens étymologique [l’élégie thrène], celui de l’époque romaine [l’élégie d’amour] et le sens moderne [l’élégie tendre de l’amitié] où on parle plutôt de tonalité élégiaque. Elle rappelle à plusieurs égards le genre classique illustré principalement par Tibulle, Properce et Ovide. Rousseau semble emprunter des motifs à l’héritage antique sans pour autant s’y assujettir. Le ton de la plainte ou du chant est dicté par des personnages vertueux. L’élégie chez Rousseau échappe au stéréotype et à la « spécialisation » : elle n’est pas dans le sillage du modèle pour lequel elle fut réputée, et dont la matière est purement funèbre ; elle n’est pas, également, un paradigme de l’élégie romaine qui s’est associée presque exclusivement à l’expression de la passion amoureuse, elle n’est pas limitée à l’expression tendre de l’amitié. Elle n’est pas seulement une esthétique. L’élégie chez Rousseau est l’ensemble de toutes ses manifestations. C’est l’expression d’une attitude. / Rousseau’s elegy deals with the themes of the lament for the death, of the absence and of the loss of one beloved. Rousseau seems to be influenced by the latin poets such as Tibulle, Propers and Ovide. Nevertheless, he is distinguished from them by the way, with which he treats the motifs. These are submitted to the nature of the characters in the novel of Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse. In addition, Rousseau uses these motifs in different other contexts. Then, elegy becomes a source of "tools" to say an idea or a point of view. Rousseau’s elegy is more than a statement of complaints or a sad love story: it is an art of writing.

In this thesis the anecdotes of 10 professionals experience working with children between the ages 0-12 living with sorrow. The purpose of this thesis is to describe how professionals use work methods and support to gain understanding of children's emotions and thought processes after loss of someone close. Frameworks used to gain a deeper understanding of the child's sorrow are Gurli Fyhrs theory of sorrow and Donald Winnicotts theory of play. The results show that child sorrow is “stripped” which means that the children change between being extremely sad, angry towards being happy and playing as if nothing happened. Professionals use various work methods, such as asking the child to draw or play with different toy figures to discover the child's emotions and thoughts concerning the loss of someone close.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Family Studies and Human Services / Rick J. Scheidt / Chronic sorrow has been defined as a permanent and reoccurring experience of pervasive sadness and loss which underlies the life experience and which recurs over time for the parent of a child with developmental, medical, or behavior issues that prevent him from participating in society in a way previously anticipated by parents. The functional question asked of the mothers was: “Some parents have described a sadness that can occur when they think about their child with a disability. Parents can believe they are functioning well, but have times where they feel the loss for their child.” To date, little research has targeted chronic sorrow among parents of adult children who have a disability. Neither is it known how chronic sorrow exists and has changed over the years since the initial diagnosis for this specific sample. This exploratory, qualitative study focused specifically on mothers of adult children with cerebral palsy. Snowball sampling was utilized to recruit six mothers in northeastern Kansas who were primary caregivers to their adult children with CP. Data were gathered with face-to-face mixed self-report surveys, including the Kendall Questionnaire on Chronic Sorrow; two surveys which assessed demographic, potential complications from cerebral palsy, and available resources; and a standard schedule open-ended interview targeting: personal experiences of chronic sorrow, chronic sorrow triggers (developmental milestones), and losses (including support, roles and responsibilities, and quality of life). Two-coder analyses of interview responses were conducted within cases and comparisons were made across cases. Common themes identified in the narratives included sense of isolation, fear for the future, frustration, loss of hope, exhaustion, sadness, financial challenges, guilt, and anger. For example, isolation was another theme that changed over time depending on if the mothers were providing full-time care. Also, fear for the future was a universal theme when the children were much younger, but it changed into loss of hope for some of the mothers when the child was the age of an adult. The relevance of the findings was discussed, with particular focus being the subjective meanings of chronic sorrow for this sample. Recommendations for advancing research, practice, and policy are offered.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:06:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MichelleVON.pdf: 965067 bytes, checksum: de46384950b63a7ca63e81017cb5f2e5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-12-16 / In this work, Florbela Espanca poetry is analyzed. The objective is to prove that the loving thematic in her poetry tissues a connection among wish, love and sorrow. The psychoanalitic boarding is the basis to elucidate this connection,which begans with the sight, since mythology, passing by the portuguese literature begining periods and repeating itself in Florbela contemporanian poets. If Florbela poetry corroborates the portuguese literature tradiction, otherwise, it exposes the subject human being face, being a wishful creature / Neste trabalho, analisa-se a obra po?tica de Florbela Espanca. Pretende-se mostrar que a tem?tica amorosa em seus versos tece uma rela??o entre o desejo, o amor e a dor. A abordagem psicanal?tica ? a base para elucidar essa rela??o, que tem inicio com o olhar, desde a mitologia, passando pelas fases iniciais da literatura portuguesa e se repetindo em poetas contempor?neos de Florbela. Se por um lado, a poesia de Florbela confirma uma tradi??o nas Letras portuguesas, por outro, exp?e o lado mais humano do sujeito, o de ser desejante

This thesis is an analysis of the comic and tragicomic styles that are evident in plays written by Beaumont and Fletcher.

In 1904, Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor published six songs from the oeuvre of white British poet Christina Georgina Rossetti, only a few months after reading W.E.B. Du Bois’ groundbreaking work The Souls of Black Folk (1903). This seminal book included a chapter called “Sorrow Songs” devoted to discussing slave songs. It also introduced the concept of double-consciousness to describe how Black people, see themselves through the lens of the white society. This point of view creates a sense of doubleness in their identity and recognition of self. The songs that Coleridge-Taylor composed, which he titled Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57, address themes of love, death, and spirituality. Coleridge-Taylor grouped these art songs under the title “Sorrow Songs”—showing a connection to Du Bois’ work and its influence. This fusion of art song and slave song opens up room for examinations of cross-genre relations, which highlights complexity of meaning and textual changes when interpreted and performed—revealing a “doubledness” to the composition in this time in the composer’s life. Serge Lacasse’s (2018) model for intertextuality offers a framework for considering the cross-genre relations that emerge in this song cycle. The concepts of architextuality, transfictionality, and polytextuality from his model are particularly relevant in this cycle, as they account for inter-genre relationships, fictional elements of the story (including speakers and the setting), as well as the overall compilation of the songs, respectively. Drawing this model together with scholarship on Sorrow Songs, this thesis focuses on the emergence of “Sorrow Songs” at this pivotal moment in the composer’s life, which will enable the consideration of the intertext of Western classical and African slave songs in this composition as well as the creation of a story in this musico-literary hybrid. Context is critical to this discussion so his trips to the USA, personal experiences, the socio-political events of the time, and the encounter with the influential Black figures will be discussed to understand how this song cycle reshaped Coleridge-Taylor’s musical path. Intertextual analysis of this song cycle reveals a sense of double meaning in Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57, where one clearly sees Du Bois’ concept at work in the life of the composer living as a Black man in a white society, in his music combining Western classical and Sorrow Song genres, in the medium he chose to write for, a singer and a pianist, and in setting spiritual/religious poetry written by a white poet to these romantic songs.