The lifeworld of the cronic mental ill: analysis of 40 written personal accounts
- Författare
- Hayne Y, Yonge O.
- Titel
- The lifeworld of the cronic mental ill: analysis of 40 written personal accounts
- Utgivningsår
- 1997
- Tidskrift
- Achives of Psychiatric Nursing
- Volym
- 11
- Häfte
- 6
- Sidor
- 314-24
- Sammanfattning
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.