Thesis (M Nursing (Advanced Practice))--University of South Australia, 1994

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-186).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

The lived experiences of professional orchestral musicians are under-­‐researched by scholars in both music and psychology, who are interested in the world of the professional orchestra and the careers of classical musicians. Framed within a Social Constructionist paradigm, the research in this thesis is concerned with investigating the subjective meanings and individual experiences of a group of ten classical orchestral musicians. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was the methodological framework chosen to design and analyse a set of open-­‐ ended interviews with the musicians, which allowed reflexivity and flexibility throughout the research process. Three superordinate themes were identified from a close reading and IPA analysis of the interview data: ‘Musical Foundations’, ‘Struggle: “The Never Ending Quest”’ and ‘Thank You For The Music’. ‘Musical Foundations’ examines the process of musical identity construction for the ten participants, from its early beginnings in childhood, through adolescence and their time in the professional orchestra. Different facets of musical identity construction are outlined and becoming an orchestral musician is viewed as essentially a social process shaped by social interactions, building on a sense of possessing certain ‘innate’ characteristics. ‘Struggle: ‘The Never Ending Quest”’ illustrates the challenges the musicians encountered within the profession and the impact that being a professional orchestral musician had on other aspects of their lives (e.g. personal and social). The fear and conflict the ten musicians experienced is outlined and how the musicians coped and ‘survived’ within the professional orchestra is demonstrated. In addition, the central importance of the identity of ‘orchestral musician’ within the participants’ lives is illustrated. The last theme, ‘Thank You For The Music’ outlines why the musicians continued within the profession despite the struggles summarised by the previous theme. This chapter highlights the autonomy and control the musicians felt they gained within their orchestras and the physiological and emotional connections they experienced with both the profession and classic music itself. Common to all three superordinate themes is their reported power struggle between the musicians and the orchestra, and between the individual and the collective. Another common issue was how central the identity of ‘orchestral musician’ was for all participants, impacting all aspects of their lives. The professional musicians constructed, negotiated and maintained their musical identities in accordance with both their own expectations and those of the classical music genre itself. The research in this thesis raises awareness of the importance of the orchestral musician identity in the musicians’ lives and how an understanding of this can help gain an insight into other aspects of the participants’ lives. Recommendations are made for further research regarding: the lived experiences of classical music students, investigation of current teaching practices in conservatoires and further exploration of the professional structures within an orchestra.

Orientador: Sandra Leal Calais / Banca: Liliam D'Aquino Tavano / Banca: Tania Gracy Martins do Valle / Resumo: A anorexia é um transtorno alimentar que traz graves prejuízos à saúde e ao desenvolvimento físico e emocional das pessoas doentes, além de poder levar à morte. Apresentando crescente incidência desde a segunda metade do século XX, a anorexia está relacionada às exigências estéticas ocidentais modernas que privilegiam a magreza e o culto ao corpo, sendo mais comum em mulheres jovens e adolescentes. Dentre os sintomas da anorexia encontram-se a restrição alimentar, perda de peso acentuada, problemas gastrintestinais, amenorréia, entre outros. Uma característica bastante presente entre as adolescentes anoréxicas é a percepção distorcida de si e de sua imagem corporal, no entanto, há poucas pesquisas na literatura que revelam como essas adolescentes vivenciam e dão significado às suas experiências. O presente trabalho teve por principal objetivo compreender a vivência de adolescentes anoréxicas numa abordagem fenomenológica, buscando abordar os aspectos subjetivos do fenômeno e, desta forma, contribuir para aprofundar sua compreensão e incrementar as possibilidades terapêuticas de pacientes com esta enfermidade. Foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, gravadas em áudio, com nove adolescentes do sexo feminino, na faixa etária de 16 a 22 anos de idade, diagnosticadas com o transtorno de anorexia nervosa de tipo restritivo e bulímico. O roteiro de entrevista conteve questões disparadoras dos relatos, abordando a visão do corpo; as relações familiares (adolescente x mãe; adolescente x pai; adolescente x irmãos); a autopercepçao e os cuidados com o corpo. Após a coleta dos dados, as entrevistas foram transcritas para posterior análise destacando-se as vivências relatadas em categorias temáticas e sínteses compreensivas dos significados atribuídos pelas adolescentes à suas experiências, de acordo com os objetivos do estudo... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstracts: Anorexia is an eating disorder that brings serious injuries to the health, physical and emotional development of the sick one and can lead to death. With the incidence growing since half of the 20th century, anorexia is related to the modern occidental esthetics patterns, which gives more importance to skinny bodies and worships the body, being more common in teenagers and young women. The most found symptoms are eating restrictions, weight loss, gastrointestinal problems, amenorrhea, and others. A very present fact in the anorexic teens is the disturbed perception of themselves and their bodies, although there are few researches that reveal how these girls live and give meanings to their experiences. The main objective of this present work is to comprehend the anorexic girl's lives in a phenomenological way, trying to study the subjective phenomenon to contribute to understand what happens with those girls and find better therapy possibilities to help those patients. For the results, it was used semi structured interviews, audio recorded, with 9 adolescents of the female gender, between the ages of 16 and 22years old, which had diagnosed with the bulimic and the restrictive nervous anorexia disorder. The questions were based in how they saw their bodies, the family relationship (with the parents and siblings); the auto perception and the care with their bodies. The answers were analyzed with the living life as they related to the thematic category meanings given by the same girls to their experiences, according the studies objective. The main results found reveal a life of anxiety and anguish facing a body seen as fat, which doesn't show the reality. Those lives resulted in many wishing a skin and idealized body. The eating habits are seen an unpleasant, generating guilt, scare and pain, because of the simple thought of gaining weight. Health means being skinny, even if the have to starve... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-02-17Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:51:04Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ramos_fnn_me_bauru.pdf: 406978 bytes, checksum: 841025ed62de2d5153e713dab71fc9ed (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Abstracts: Anorexia is an eating disorder that brings serious injuries to the health, physical and emotional development of the sick one and can lead to death. With the incidence growing since half of the 20th century, anorexia is related to the modern occidental esthetics patterns, which gives more importance to skinny bodies and worships the body, being more common in teenagers and young women. The most found symptoms are eating restrictions, weight loss, gastrointestinal problems, amenorrhea, and others. A very present fact in the anorexic teens is the disturbed perception of themselves and their bodies, although there are few researches that reveal how these girls live and give meanings to their experiences. The main objective of this present work is to comprehend the anorexic girl's lives in a phenomenological way, trying to study the subjective phenomenon to contribute to understand what happens with those girls and find better therapy possibilities to help those patients. For the results, it was used semi structured interviews, audio recorded, with 9 adolescents of the female gender, between the ages of 16 and 22years old, which had diagnosed with the bulimic and the restrictive nervous anorexia disorder. The questions were based in how they saw their bodies, the family relationship (with the parents and siblings); the auto perception and the care with their bodies. The answers were analyzed with the living life as they related to the thematic category meanings given by the same girls to their experiences, according the studies objective. The main results found reveal a life of anxiety and anguish facing a body seen as fat, which doesn't show the reality. Those lives resulted in many wishing a skin and idealized body. The eating habits are seen an unpleasant, generating guilt, scare and pain, because of the simple thought of gaining weight. Health means being skinny, even if the have to starve... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / A anorexia é um transtorno alimentar que traz graves prejuízos à saúde e ao desenvolvimento físico e emocional das pessoas doentes, além de poder levar à morte. Apresentando crescente incidência desde a segunda metade do século XX, a anorexia está relacionada às exigências estéticas ocidentais modernas que privilegiam a magreza e o culto ao corpo, sendo mais comum em mulheres jovens e adolescentes. Dentre os sintomas da anorexia encontram-se a restrição alimentar, perda de peso acentuada, problemas gastrintestinais, amenorréia, entre outros. Uma característica bastante presente entre as adolescentes anoréxicas é a percepção distorcida de si e de sua imagem corporal, no entanto, há poucas pesquisas na literatura que revelam como essas adolescentes vivenciam e dão significado às suas experiências. O presente trabalho teve por principal objetivo compreender a vivência de adolescentes anoréxicas numa abordagem fenomenológica, buscando abordar os aspectos subjetivos do fenômeno e, desta forma, contribuir para aprofundar sua compreensão e incrementar as possibilidades terapêuticas de pacientes com esta enfermidade. Foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, gravadas em áudio, com nove adolescentes do sexo feminino, na faixa etária de 16 a 22 anos de idade, diagnosticadas com o transtorno de anorexia nervosa de tipo restritivo e bulímico. O roteiro de entrevista conteve questões disparadoras dos relatos, abordando a visão do corpo; as relações familiares (adolescente x mãe; adolescente x pai; adolescente x irmãos); a autopercepçao e os cuidados com o corpo. Após a coleta dos dados, as entrevistas foram transcritas para posterior análise destacando-se as vivências relatadas em categorias temáticas e sínteses compreensivas dos significados atribuídos pelas adolescentes à suas experiências, de acordo com os objetivos do estudo...

abstract: This study addressed the questions: What is the experience of mindfulness by yoga masters? How can such experiences inform the counseling intervention of mindfulness? In a qualitative study, individuals who held the minimum credentials E-RYT 200 (i.e., Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 200 Hour) were interviewed. The verbatim interviews were analyzed using the phenomenological approach. Two categories of themes emerged describing mindfulness as a state of being and a practice of awareness. The common themes describing mindfulness as a state of being include: conscious awareness, feeling bliss, the present moment, interconnectedness, and compassionate evolution. The common themes describing mindfulness as a practice of awareness include: waking the body, balanced practice, the power of pranayama, refining abilities, obstacles to awareness, a holistic practice, and external supports. The results of this study suggest that mindfulness is multifaceted and ephemeral; however, with regular practice it becomes more consistently maintained. As a practice of awareness, mindfulness develops through a hierarchy of techniques moving from the external to the internal including both self and other. Discussion focuses on how these experiences can be applied in counseling interventions. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.C. Counseling 2012

The state of cultural and social theories is not satisfactory though they seem to flourish in terms of quantity. Scholars successfully describe most of the cultural and social phenomena but propose wildly different, sometime even opposite, interpretations of these phenomena. This thesis offers genetic phenomenological sociology as an alternative interpretation that goes beyond structure oriented theories and construction (agency) oriented theories. It proposes to interpret cultural and social phenomena in the process of their emergence and transformation, and argues that this process or genealogy is the social ontology of culture and society. This thesis develops genetic phenomenological sociology through exploring the genetic side of phenomenology and social theories, and through examining the emergence and transformation of Apple in China. Genealogy is not only method and critique, but also social ontology. This is a main theoretical argument and objective of empirical analysis of the thesis. Theoretically, this thesis explores the genetic side of Husserlian phenomenology, phenomenological sociology as well as the genetic side of social theories. These theories fully develop genealogy as method and critique and imply genealogy as social ontology. But they do not fully develop the idea of genealogy as social ontology. This underdevelopment leads to theoretical problems of subject and normativity, such as Husserlian phenomenology and Foucault's theory. Genealogy, as social ontology, is a way out of the dichotomy of structure and construction, a way out of the philosophy of subject, and a solution to the problems of subject and normativity. This theoretical argument is further developed through theoretical investigation of meaning context, social ontology, genealogy, practice, encountering and embodiment from the perspective of genetic phenomenological sociology in the substantive chapters. Empirically, the genetic phenomenological sociology of Apple answers the question how Apple culture emerges and transforms in China. It examines Apple in genesis in China from the 1980s to 2015. First, the meaning context of this period can be largely described as a transformation of electronic culture from modernization in the 1980s to individualism and consumerism after 2000 through marketization. Second, Apple store exemplifies the social ontology and epistemology of genetic phenomenological sociology. Third, the genealogy of Apple advertisements, media practices and media ritualization concerning Steve Jobs and the cultural encountering of Apple in the meaning context of China's reform era illustrate how Apple culture emerges and transforms. Finally, the genetic phenomenological sociology of Apple technology further reveals the relation between people and thing, which is embodiment. This thesis develops genetic phenomenological sociology as an alternative approach in the study of culture, media and technology that goes beyond structure and construction oriented theories. The ontological root of genetic phenomenological sociology, which is the non-subject philosophy, needs to be further developed.