Sickness, Stigma and Spiritual Awakening; A Transpersonal Paradigm for Women with Contested Illnesses

ISBN-13: 9781788743419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 186 str.

Bernadette Masterson

Opis

This book presents a seven-stage model of spiritual awaking amongst women living with chronic «invisible» or contested illnesses which bears relevance for people faced with any kind of life-altering condition. The illnesses featured include ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Electromagnetic Sensitivity, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Lyme disease.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Historical Context: Science at the Expense of Empathy - Contemporary Medical Humanitarians Respond - The Traumatic Nature of Chronic Invisible Illness: The Women's Voices - The Discourses of Spiritual Awakening - Spiritual Awakening: The Women's Voices - Key Themes Arising from the Research as a Whole -Seven-stage Model of Spiritual Awakening amongst Women with Chronic Invisible Illnesses - Empowering the Marginalised.

O autorze

Bernadette Masterson was awarded a PhD by Dublin City University (through All Hallows College) for her exploratory study of spiritual awakening amongst women with chronic invisible/contested illnesses. Prior to that she had obtained an MA in Applied Psychosynthesis from the Institute of Psychosynthesis/Middlesex University in London. She worked for a number of years in broadcast journalism in London. Currently she contributes her expertise to the Spirituality Institute for Research and Education (SpIRE) in Dublin, and supervises dissertations for the MA in Applied Spirituality - an associate activity between SpIRE and the Waterford Institute of Technology's Department of Applied Arts.