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The lifeworld of the chronic mentally ill: Analysis of 40 written personal accounts

✍ Scribed by Yvonne Hayne; Olive Yonge

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
972 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
1532-8228

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✦ Synopsis

In this study, chronicity in mental illness has been investigated as it is lived rather than how it might be conceptualized. Published first-hand accounts have provided the mechanism for direct access in coming to know the life of persons, their circumstances, and the meanings they associate with a life of persistent and enduring mental illness. These are unique and particular human experiences, and there are no empirical generalizations or law-like statements that can give such an understanding. Therefore the disclosure of meaning was sought through a hermeneutic-phenomenologic process. Four lifeworld existentials provide the framework for a combined description and interpretation of what it means to "live" chronic mental illness. The article concludes with a brief discussion of some implications for nursing practice, and commentary is made on the relevance of such insights to health care providers in both acute and community care settings.

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