Birgitta Haga Gripsrud
Biographic Data
| ID | 3446050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgitta Haga Gripsrud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgitta Haga |
| FAMILY NAME | Gripsrud |
| SIGNATURE | GRIPSRUD B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stavanger |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2206-4673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Breastfeeding, mutual gratification, and emotion self-regulation
Life pushing through
As a researcher, three of my fields of interest have been the breast, breast cancer and death. In 2020, life interrupted as my mother phoned to say that a CT-scan had revealed a small growth in her left breast. Having just published an article on policy guidelines for the integrated breast cancer pathway, I was thrown into this pathway as next of kin, accompanying my mother through diagnosis and treatment. With life pushing through in this way, I…
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff
The purpose of the present study was to gain insight into how death is a theme of communication and reflection among staff at a multicultural nursing home. Sixteen interviews with healthcare providers from five nursing homes in Norway were conducted and interpreted through a depth-hermeneutic approach. Our analysis across the dataset yielded an emergent finding related to a prominent lack of communication about death between the healthcare person…
Mothering Death
In this article I take as my point of departure a puzzle presented by a woman who had an apparently ‘bizarre’ reaction to a breast cancer diagnosis. In the clinic, she had exclaimed: “I would rather die than lose the breast!”. My aim is to unpack layers in this woman’s embodied and enculturated experience, with a view towards developing a psychosocial interpretation of breast cancer biography. The single case on which the present study is based, …
Couldn’t care less? A psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care policy as a case of borderline welfare
This article engages with recent shifts in public healthcare policy in Norway through a psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care, which evokes the hope of cure and reparation in the psychosocial imaginary. With increasing incidence and prevalence, cancer is a persistent challenge for public health services. Policy makers therefore emphasise that resources must be prioritised while ensuring good-quality care for vulnerable citizens. In 20…
Death and liminality
This paper investigates nursing home staff's experiences of the "final journey," when a resident's dead body is taken to the cold room. The account is based on data from ethnographic fieldwork in two nursing homes in Norway. Accompanying the dead body, staff found themselves "betwixt and between" - an anxious and ambiguous state, bordering on the uncanny. Liminality became a useful theoretical device in the data interpretation. The last offices -…
The visual matrix method in a study of death and dying
Psychosocial and Symbolic Dimensions of the Breast Explored through a Visual Matrix
This article explores knowledge about the breast in lived experience, addressing a gap in empirical research on a highly gendered cultural trope and embodied organ. We present findings from a study that used a free-associative psychosocial method—the Visual Matrix—in order to stimulate expressions of tacit aspects of the breast, aiming to generate an understanding of relations between embodied and enculturated experiences. Our data revealed how a…
Our genes, our selves
Our genes, our selves
Psychosocial and Symbolic Dimensions of the Breast Explored through a Visual Matrix
This article explores knowledge about the breast in lived experience, addressing a gap in empirical research on a highly gendered cultural trope and embodied organ. We present findings from a study that used a free-associative psychosocial method—the Visual Matrix—in order to stimulate expressions of tacit aspects of the breast, aiming to generate an understanding of relations between embodied and enculturated experiences. Our data revealed how a…
Death and liminality
This paper investigates nursing home staff's experiences of the "final journey," when a resident's dead body is taken to the cold room. The account is based on data from ethnographic fieldwork in two nursing homes in Norway. Accompanying the dead body, staff found themselves "betwixt and between" - an anxious and ambiguous state, bordering on the uncanny. Liminality became a useful theoretical device in the data interpretation. The last offices -…
Our genes, our selves
Psychosocial and Symbolic Dimensions of the Breast Explored through a Visual Matrix
This article explores knowledge about the breast in lived experience, addressing a gap in empirical research on a highly gendered cultural trope and embodied organ. We present findings from a study that used a free-associative psychosocial method—the Visual Matrix—in order to stimulate expressions of tacit aspects of the breast, aiming to generate an understanding of relations between embodied and enculturated experiences. Our data revealed how a…
Death and liminality
This paper investigates nursing home staff's experiences of the "final journey," when a resident's dead body is taken to the cold room. The account is based on data from ethnographic fieldwork in two nursing homes in Norway. Accompanying the dead body, staff found themselves "betwixt and between" - an anxious and ambiguous state, bordering on the uncanny. Liminality became a useful theoretical device in the data interpretation. The last offices -…
The visual matrix method in a study of death and dying
Couldn’t care less? A psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care policy as a case of borderline welfare
This article engages with recent shifts in public healthcare policy in Norway through a psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care, which evokes the hope of cure and reparation in the psychosocial imaginary. With increasing incidence and prevalence, cancer is a persistent challenge for public health services. Policy makers therefore emphasise that resources must be prioritised while ensuring good-quality care for vulnerable citizens. In 20…
Mothering Death
In this article I take as my point of departure a puzzle presented by a woman who had an apparently ‘bizarre’ reaction to a breast cancer diagnosis. In the clinic, she had exclaimed: “I would rather die than lose the breast!”. My aim is to unpack layers in this woman’s embodied and enculturated experience, with a view towards developing a psychosocial interpretation of breast cancer biography. The single case on which the present study is based, …
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff
The purpose of the present study was to gain insight into how death is a theme of communication and reflection among staff at a multicultural nursing home. Sixteen interviews with healthcare providers from five nursing homes in Norway were conducted and interpreted through a depth-hermeneutic approach. Our analysis across the dataset yielded an emergent finding related to a prominent lack of communication about death between the healthcare person…
Life pushing through
As a researcher, three of my fields of interest have been the breast, breast cancer and death. In 2020, life interrupted as my mother phoned to say that a CT-scan had revealed a small growth in her left breast. Having just published an article on policy guidelines for the integrated breast cancer pathway, I was thrown into this pathway as next of kin, accompanying my mother through diagnosis and treatment. With life pushing through in this way, I…
Breastfeeding, mutual gratification, and emotion self-regulation
Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Psychosocial (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (3 works)