Jan Grimell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 658164 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Grimell |
| NOMBRES | Jan |
| APELLIDO | Grimell |
| FIRMA | GRIMELL J |
| AFILIACIONES | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7327-8519 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Perceived Needs for Military Soul Care Among Commanders and Military Personnel in the Swedish Armed Forces
This article examines Military Soul Care as practiced within the Swedish Armed Forces, where it constitutes a distinct and culturally embedded form of military chaplaincy structured through the ACCES framework. The aim is to describe how Swedish military chaplains (MCs) interpret the importance attributed to Military Soul Care by commanders and other military personnel, and how they perceive its use within military practice. The study is based on…
Upholding Human Dignity as a First Principle
This reflective article proposes a strategic principle for North Atlantic Treaty Orgnization (NATO) military chaplaincy services aimed at strengthening preventive efforts related to moral injury in war. Contemporary military research increasingly recognizes the moral, spiritual and existential consequences of warfare, which are not fully addressed by traditional psychiatric models, yet a growing body of scholarship highlights the role that chapla…
At the edge of war
Europe's rapid rearmament in response to Russia's war against Ukraine marks a significant shift away from the post-Cold War era of demilitarisation and expeditionary operations. Within this evolving security landscape, military chaplains (MCs) in NATO member and partner countries may increasingly find themselves operating on the edge of war. This reflective article asks what this new security reality may mean for military chaplaincy in Europe. Ch…
Toward a Framework for Military Spiritual Care in Belgium
Walking beside soldiers
This study explores the questions encountered by Swedish military chaplains (MCs) in their role of providing Military Soul Care within the Swedish Armed Forces. While Swedish MCs are deeply rooted in the Lutheran tradition, their work extends beyond religious boundaries, addressing existential, moral, and social issues that arise in military contexts. Using a qualitative questionnaire completed by 50 chaplains, the research identifies five themat…
Preserving the human character in an inhuman situation
Military chaplains (MCs) are trained to address aspects of health beyond the remit of mental health professionals, namely the spiritual/religious and existential dimensions of service members' mental health, within the biopsychosocial-spiritual (BPSS) model. Models of military spiritual care differ, and in Sweden this is termed Military Soul Care (militär själavård), regulated through the ACCES framework (Advisory role; Commander and Crisis suppo…
Commanding with compassion
The purpose of this article is to foster a better general understanding of military chaplains within NATO by elucidating their roles, highlighting what distinguishes military chaplains from military medical (psychiatrists and psychologists), and offering general suggestions on how military commanders at the tactical (battalion) level can benefit from military chaplains. The context for this paper is the ongoing research conducted by NATO's Scienc…
Am I a priest in the armed forces, or a soldier who is a priest?” Identity work among military chaplains in the Swedish armed forces
Military chaplains (MCs) in Sweden embody a hybrid professional identity at the intersection of ecclesiastical and military institutions. Ordained Lutheran priests serve within the Swedish Armed Forces, where they may carry arms for self-defense-challenging conventional boundaries between religious and military roles. This study investigates the identity work undertaken by Swedish MCs as they navigate this complex terrain. Based on qualitative da…
Understanding Ukrainian military chaplains as defenders of the human soul
The aim of this article was to explore the stresses of war on the human soul, utilizing empirical research on the experiences and contributions of military chaplains (MCs) in the war in Ukraine. The concept of the human soul was examined through a theoretical framework inspired by Mead's notions of the I and the Me . The I represented the unique, creative, and transcendent aspects of a person, while the Me reflected the cultural and social constr…
Swedish Veterans of Foreign Conflicts and Veteran Health Limbo
This article describes the mental health of Swedish veterans of foreign conflicts with a focus on Veteran Health Limbo, which is also the name of an ongoing research project. Veteran Health Limbo refers to those veterans of foreign conflicts whose mental health is suffering, but who do not meet the criteria for clinical PTSD. The term limbo is used because the veterans are in between two health poles: a balanced well-being and a clinically diagno…
Understanding the presence of military priests conducting military soul care in the Swedish armed forces
In the 20th century, military medicine and psychiatry emerged as dominant paradigms in Western military contexts, shaping practices across recruitment, selection, training, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. This approach paralleled trends in broader Western society, where it has faced criticism for medicalizing social, psychological, spiritual, and existential issues, often applying methods ill-suited to address certain forms of su…
The Mask of the Warrior
As service members transition from deployment to civilian life, they are also expected to reintegrate into society. An important part of this process is to "soften up" veteran or warrior identities and open up the self for both existing and new identities, mindsets, and ways of life. Past research has shown that the warrior mindset, in particular, can have negative health implications in the long run. The mindset can be costly, not only for the i…
You can take a person out of the military, but you can’t take the military out of the person
This article takes its starting point in a longitudinal interview study that began in 2013 with the aim of investigating identity reconstruction during the transition from military to civilian life. Annual follow-up interviews were conducted for 3 years, after which there was a break for 7 years until 2023 when a new interview cycle was conducted. The article presents the findings from this interview round. The purpose of the study was to describ…
A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on the Divide within the Veteran Self
This article focuses a theoretical lens on the veteran self and discusses what this can mean for veterans, their loved ones, and society. Mead’s (1934) generalized other, Cooley’s (1902) looking-glass self, and James’s (1890) and Mead’s division of the self into the I and the Me are central concepts in this discussion. The article embraces a symbolic interactionist understanding, which leads to the suggestion that there is no deeper symbolic cons…
Beyond PTSD
This multi-case study explored Swedish military veterans’ experiences related to posttraumatic stress disorder, moral injury, and spiritual injury. Specifically, the present study focused on 4 domains (health care, veteran’s administration, moral conflicts and injuries, and identities and existential dimensions) that emerged in participants’ meaning making as they navigated everyday life. While these domains are distinct from each other, results …
Evil, Constructed
This article investigated constructions of evil among deployed Swedish veterans. Six cases were used to demonstrate common themes of these constructions: humans are capable of everything; anyone can be violated, even killed; evil and cruelty comes in many forms; coldness/cynicism; exhausting to witness suffering and pain; and existential rumination. The impact of these can affect a veteran's identity and their notions of self. However, processing…
Moral injury
This article is based on an interview study of 24 Swedish veterans who experienced deteriorating mental health and increased suffering without meeting the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis. With no clinical answers as to the cause of their deteriorating mental health, they have been thrown into a veteran's health limbo. The analysis was based on an inductive logic. A key finding of the analysis was a kind of deep-seated permanent moral conflict that …
I-position as a tool to advance the understanding of pastors and deacons who navigate contrasting identities as chaplains
Chaplaincy services form a vital complement for secular societal institutions which must accommodate spiritual needs, including but not limited to, hospitals, armed forces, and prisons. Yet cultures within societal institutions and churches or faith organizations are fundamentally different. The purpose of this article is to present a conceptual, methodological and occupational discussion around Swedish pastors and deacons serving as specialised …
Military chaplaincy in Sweden
Pastors serving as military chaplains have been an integral part of the Swedish Armed Forces for hundreds of years. This close relationship has continued even after the Church of Sweden was formally separated from the state in 2000. Yet contemporary research drawing from experiences of Swedish military chaplains during their pastoral and spiritual assignments within a military context is virtually non-existent. This research explores the contempo…
An interview study of experiences from pastors providing military spiritual care within the Swedish Armed Forces
This article presents a recently completed research project on pastors providing spiritual care within the Swedish Armed Forces. This descriptive study provides unique contextual insights of experiences from military chaplains. The purpose of the study was to describe experiences and lessons learned (wisdom) from pastors providing military spiritual care within the Swedish Armed Forces. Twelve military chaplains, ordained and employed by the Chur…
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses
Research on ambulance culture and identity is globally scant and nonexistent within a Swedish context. This study on Swedish ambulance nurses serves as a first step and an important entry point into this topic. The purpose was to describe professional ambulance identities among four participants who had served between several years and decades in the ambulance services. Qualitative data was obtained through initial in-depth interviews and follow-…
Widening The Gallery Of Biblical Combat Veteran Types With Gideon
This spiritual-psychological exegesis continues to expand the gallery of biblical combat veteran types by shedding light on a new biblical combat character. Gideon from the Book of Judges was an experienced combat veteran and military commander. The findings include the proposal of a new categorical type of a combat veteran who illustrates both spiritual integrity and resilience. The article engages in conversations of what the findings may mean …
Advancing an understanding of the body amid transition from a military life
In this article, we explore the process of transitions from a military life to a civilian life. Making use of the concepts offered by Dialogical Self Theory, we explore how individuals negotiate the acquisition of new, civilian identities by integrating different, sometimes conflicting, cultural I-positions. Moreover, in this article, we explore how this narrative process is reflected through embodied processes of becoming civilian. We do so by p…
Revisiting The ‘Cost of Discipleship’ in the aftermath of Military Service
This article applies Bonhoeffer’s description of Christian discipleship to research literature on military culture and costs of military service. Bonhoeffer’s theological understanding of discipleship illustrates a calling, subordination, obedience, discipline, loyalty, mission focus and the cost thereof, and a collectivistic approach. These are commonly understood as core features of military communal life and service. This article suggests that…
Revisiting Living in Limbo to Illustrate a Pastoral Psychological Understanding of Transition from Military to Civilian Life
The transition from military to civilian life includes a multitude of challenges for service members and their significant others. This transfer from one context to another can include, but is not limited to, a need for an identity shift, cultivation of an alternate mind-set, social reorientation, a search for employment, grief and sadness due to the loss of camaraderie, and/or experiences of alienation and estrangement from civilian society. Alt…
You can take a person out of the military, but you can’t take the military out of the person
This article takes its starting point in a longitudinal interview study that began in 2013 with the aim of investigating identity reconstruction during the transition from military to civilian life. Annual follow-up interviews were conducted for 3 years, after which there was a break for 7 years until 2023 when a new interview cycle was conducted. The article presents the findings from this interview round. The purpose of the study was to describ…
Understanding the presence of military priests conducting military soul care in the Swedish armed forces
In the 20th century, military medicine and psychiatry emerged as dominant paradigms in Western military contexts, shaping practices across recruitment, selection, training, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. This approach paralleled trends in broader Western society, where it has faced criticism for medicalizing social, psychological, spiritual, and existential issues, often applying methods ill-suited to address certain forms of su…
Revisiting Living in Limbo to Illustrate a Pastoral Psychological Understanding of Transition from Military to Civilian Life
The transition from military to civilian life includes a multitude of challenges for service members and their significant others. This transfer from one context to another can include, but is not limited to, a need for an identity shift, cultivation of an alternate mind-set, social reorientation, a search for employment, grief and sadness due to the loss of camaraderie, and/or experiences of alienation and estrangement from civilian society. Alt…
Reflections on Spiritual Themes in a Narrative Psychological Investigation of a Secular Swede
This article utilizes a longitudinal case study of a secular Swedish veteran to reflect on ongoing research. Special attentivon is paid to the study's potential contributions of practical theology. Drawing from psychological sources, a theoretical and methodological approach is presented that provides a useful framework for such an enterprise. By reflecting upon the specific experiences of a veteran referred to as Erik, it is suggested that a non…
Making dialogue with an existential voice in transition from military to civilian life
Dialogical Self Theory has contributed to the endeavors to map and grid self-identity work in transition from military to civilian life throughout an empirical and longitudinal research project which focuses on existential dimensions. This article is based on a case study from this project and centers upon Sergeant Jonas, who, upon his return from deployment in Afghanistan, struggled with his transition as a new existential position was vocalized…
Revisiting the courage to be to understand transition from a military life
This article, drawn from a comprehensive empirical study, offers a theological reflection on the transition from military to civilian life. The author revisits Tillich’s classical existential theology in an attempt to understand the transition as an existential threat to the participants in the study. The transition can be understood as a temporary state of non-being in life where identity, purpose, meaning, community, and belonging are at least …
Advancing an understanding of selves in transition
Self-identity work appears to be a challenge for many service members as they transition and reintegrate into civilian life. When other cultural influences seem to threaten an established self as it labors with transition, tension and conflict may arise and can potentially impact mental health. Insights from an ongoing longitudinal project on the subject matter indicate that an analysis of an individual, which utilizes the concept of I-positions …
Advancing an understanding of the body amid transition from a military life
In this article, we explore the process of transitions from a military life to a civilian life. Making use of the concepts offered by Dialogical Self Theory, we explore how individuals negotiate the acquisition of new, civilian identities by integrating different, sometimes conflicting, cultural I-positions. Moreover, in this article, we explore how this narrative process is reflected through embodied processes of becoming civilian. We do so by p…
Revisiting The ‘Cost of Discipleship’ in the aftermath of Military Service
This article applies Bonhoeffer’s description of Christian discipleship to research literature on military culture and costs of military service. Bonhoeffer’s theological understanding of discipleship illustrates a calling, subordination, obedience, discipline, loyalty, mission focus and the cost thereof, and a collectivistic approach. These are commonly understood as core features of military communal life and service. This article suggests that…
Revisiting Living in Limbo to Illustrate a Pastoral Psychological Understanding of Transition from Military to Civilian Life
The transition from military to civilian life includes a multitude of challenges for service members and their significant others. This transfer from one context to another can include, but is not limited to, a need for an identity shift, cultivation of an alternate mind-set, social reorientation, a search for employment, grief and sadness due to the loss of camaraderie, and/or experiences of alienation and estrangement from civilian society. Alt…
Widening The Gallery Of Biblical Combat Veteran Types With Gideon
This spiritual-psychological exegesis continues to expand the gallery of biblical combat veteran types by shedding light on a new biblical combat character. Gideon from the Book of Judges was an experienced combat veteran and military commander. The findings include the proposal of a new categorical type of a combat veteran who illustrates both spiritual integrity and resilience. The article engages in conversations of what the findings may mean …
I-position as a tool to advance the understanding of pastors and deacons who navigate contrasting identities as chaplains
Chaplaincy services form a vital complement for secular societal institutions which must accommodate spiritual needs, including but not limited to, hospitals, armed forces, and prisons. Yet cultures within societal institutions and churches or faith organizations are fundamentally different. The purpose of this article is to present a conceptual, methodological and occupational discussion around Swedish pastors and deacons serving as specialised …
Military chaplaincy in Sweden
Pastors serving as military chaplains have been an integral part of the Swedish Armed Forces for hundreds of years. This close relationship has continued even after the Church of Sweden was formally separated from the state in 2000. Yet contemporary research drawing from experiences of Swedish military chaplains during their pastoral and spiritual assignments within a military context is virtually non-existent. This research explores the contempo…
An interview study of experiences from pastors providing military spiritual care within the Swedish Armed Forces
This article presents a recently completed research project on pastors providing spiritual care within the Swedish Armed Forces. This descriptive study provides unique contextual insights of experiences from military chaplains. The purpose of the study was to describe experiences and lessons learned (wisdom) from pastors providing military spiritual care within the Swedish Armed Forces. Twelve military chaplains, ordained and employed by the Chur…
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses
Research on ambulance culture and identity is globally scant and nonexistent within a Swedish context. This study on Swedish ambulance nurses serves as a first step and an important entry point into this topic. The purpose was to describe professional ambulance identities among four participants who had served between several years and decades in the ambulance services. Qualitative data was obtained through initial in-depth interviews and follow-…
A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on the Divide within the Veteran Self
This article focuses a theoretical lens on the veteran self and discusses what this can mean for veterans, their loved ones, and society. Mead’s (1934) generalized other, Cooley’s (1902) looking-glass self, and James’s (1890) and Mead’s division of the self into the I and the Me are central concepts in this discussion. The article embraces a symbolic interactionist understanding, which leads to the suggestion that there is no deeper symbolic cons…
Beyond PTSD
This multi-case study explored Swedish military veterans’ experiences related to posttraumatic stress disorder, moral injury, and spiritual injury. Specifically, the present study focused on 4 domains (health care, veteran’s administration, moral conflicts and injuries, and identities and existential dimensions) that emerged in participants’ meaning making as they navigated everyday life. While these domains are distinct from each other, results …
Evil, Constructed
This article investigated constructions of evil among deployed Swedish veterans. Six cases were used to demonstrate common themes of these constructions: humans are capable of everything; anyone can be violated, even killed; evil and cruelty comes in many forms; coldness/cynicism; exhausting to witness suffering and pain; and existential rumination. The impact of these can affect a veteran's identity and their notions of self. However, processing…
Moral injury
This article is based on an interview study of 24 Swedish veterans who experienced deteriorating mental health and increased suffering without meeting the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis. With no clinical answers as to the cause of their deteriorating mental health, they have been thrown into a veteran's health limbo. The analysis was based on an inductive logic. A key finding of the analysis was a kind of deep-seated permanent moral conflict that …
Swedish Veterans of Foreign Conflicts and Veteran Health Limbo
This article describes the mental health of Swedish veterans of foreign conflicts with a focus on Veteran Health Limbo, which is also the name of an ongoing research project. Veteran Health Limbo refers to those veterans of foreign conflicts whose mental health is suffering, but who do not meet the criteria for clinical PTSD. The term limbo is used because the veterans are in between two health poles: a balanced well-being and a clinically diagno…
Understanding the presence of military priests conducting military soul care in the Swedish armed forces
In the 20th century, military medicine and psychiatry emerged as dominant paradigms in Western military contexts, shaping practices across recruitment, selection, training, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. This approach paralleled trends in broader Western society, where it has faced criticism for medicalizing social, psychological, spiritual, and existential issues, often applying methods ill-suited to address certain forms of su…
The Mask of the Warrior
As service members transition from deployment to civilian life, they are also expected to reintegrate into society. An important part of this process is to "soften up" veteran or warrior identities and open up the self for both existing and new identities, mindsets, and ways of life. Past research has shown that the warrior mindset, in particular, can have negative health implications in the long run. The mindset can be costly, not only for the i…
You can take a person out of the military, but you can’t take the military out of the person
This article takes its starting point in a longitudinal interview study that began in 2013 with the aim of investigating identity reconstruction during the transition from military to civilian life. Annual follow-up interviews were conducted for 3 years, after which there was a break for 7 years until 2023 when a new interview cycle was conducted. The article presents the findings from this interview round. The purpose of the study was to describ…
Walking beside soldiers
This study explores the questions encountered by Swedish military chaplains (MCs) in their role of providing Military Soul Care within the Swedish Armed Forces. While Swedish MCs are deeply rooted in the Lutheran tradition, their work extends beyond religious boundaries, addressing existential, moral, and social issues that arise in military contexts. Using a qualitative questionnaire completed by 50 chaplains, the research identifies five themat…
Preserving the human character in an inhuman situation
Military chaplains (MCs) are trained to address aspects of health beyond the remit of mental health professionals, namely the spiritual/religious and existential dimensions of service members' mental health, within the biopsychosocial-spiritual (BPSS) model. Models of military spiritual care differ, and in Sweden this is termed Military Soul Care (militär själavård), regulated through the ACCES framework (Advisory role; Commander and Crisis suppo…
Commanding with compassion
The purpose of this article is to foster a better general understanding of military chaplains within NATO by elucidating their roles, highlighting what distinguishes military chaplains from military medical (psychiatrists and psychologists), and offering general suggestions on how military commanders at the tactical (battalion) level can benefit from military chaplains. The context for this paper is the ongoing research conducted by NATO's Scienc…
Am I a priest in the armed forces, or a soldier who is a priest?” Identity work among military chaplains in the Swedish armed forces
Military chaplains (MCs) in Sweden embody a hybrid professional identity at the intersection of ecclesiastical and military institutions. Ordained Lutheran priests serve within the Swedish Armed Forces, where they may carry arms for self-defense-challenging conventional boundaries between religious and military roles. This study investigates the identity work undertaken by Swedish MCs as they navigate this complex terrain. Based on qualitative da…
Understanding Ukrainian military chaplains as defenders of the human soul
The aim of this article was to explore the stresses of war on the human soul, utilizing empirical research on the experiences and contributions of military chaplains (MCs) in the war in Ukraine. The concept of the human soul was examined through a theoretical framework inspired by Mead's notions of the I and the Me . The I represented the unique, creative, and transcendent aspects of a person, while the Me reflected the cultural and social constr…
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