Catherine Garrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Garrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrett |
| SIGNATURE | GARRETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Spirituality and healing in the sociology of chronic illness
The sociology of health and illness has paid little attention to the part that spiritual experiences and beliefs often play in healing, that is the self-transformation that may enable people to ‘live well' in the face of chronic illness. Part one describes problems that autobiographical accounts of spirituality can create for social theory, both as ‘experience’ and as claims to sources of knowledge beyond the ‘social’. Part two reviews the sociol…
Transcendental Meditation, Reiki and Yoga: Suffering, Ritual and Self-Transformation
The paper explores three practices of eastern spirituality taken up by westerners for apparently secular purposes. As an 'emic' account that proceeds inductively from the author's experience, it shows how each of these practices is an attempt to change the meaning of suffering through the creative medium of ritual. Rituals are often used as initiations from one form of subjectivity to another. Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Reiki are undert…
Weal and Woe: Suffering, Sociology, and the Emotions of Julian of Norwich
Sources of hope in chronic illness
Chronic illness is a form of suffering from which cure is unlikely but healing is possible. This paper reflects on the emotion of ‘hope’ in the context of such illnesses. Using Arthur Frank’s illness narrative types as a framework, it begins with sociological critiques of the discourse of hope in media stories about cancer (‘false hopes’). It considers the contrast between stories of ‘loss of self’ and ‘transcendence of self’ in the sociological …
Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery
Part I. Personal Sociology: 1. Descent and return 2. Researching recovery 3. Autobiography, narrative and healing Part II. Anorexia and Recovery: 4. Reinterpreting 'anorexia' 5. Reinterpreting 'recovery' 6. Recovery stories Part III. Spirituality: 7. Society and spirit 8. Rituals of self-transformation 9. Spiritual stories Part IV. The Body: 10. Recreating the body 11. The sexual body 12. The knowing body Epilogue Appendices
Recovery from anorexia nervosa: A Durkheimian interpretation
Recovery from anorexia nervosa: A Durkheimian interpretation
Transcendental Meditation, Reiki and Yoga: Suffering, Ritual and Self-Transformation
The paper explores three practices of eastern spirituality taken up by westerners for apparently secular purposes. As an 'emic' account that proceeds inductively from the author's experience, it shows how each of these practices is an attempt to change the meaning of suffering through the creative medium of ritual. Rituals are often used as initiations from one form of subjectivity to another. Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Reiki are undert…
Spirituality and healing in the sociology of chronic illness
The sociology of health and illness has paid little attention to the part that spiritual experiences and beliefs often play in healing, that is the self-transformation that may enable people to ‘live well' in the face of chronic illness. Part one describes problems that autobiographical accounts of spirituality can create for social theory, both as ‘experience’ and as claims to sources of knowledge beyond the ‘social’. Part two reviews the sociol…
Sources of hope in chronic illness
Chronic illness is a form of suffering from which cure is unlikely but healing is possible. This paper reflects on the emotion of ‘hope’ in the context of such illnesses. Using Arthur Frank’s illness narrative types as a framework, it begins with sociological critiques of the discourse of hope in media stories about cancer (‘false hopes’). It considers the contrast between stories of ‘loss of self’ and ‘transcendence of self’ in the sociological …
Recovery from anorexia nervosa: A Durkheimian interpretation
Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery
Part I. Personal Sociology: 1. Descent and return 2. Researching recovery 3. Autobiography, narrative and healing Part II. Anorexia and Recovery: 4. Reinterpreting 'anorexia' 5. Reinterpreting 'recovery' 6. Recovery stories Part III. Spirituality: 7. Society and spirit 8. Rituals of self-transformation 9. Spiritual stories Part IV. The Body: 10. Recreating the body 11. The sexual body 12. The knowing body Epilogue Appendices
Transcendental Meditation, Reiki and Yoga: Suffering, Ritual and Self-Transformation
The paper explores three practices of eastern spirituality taken up by westerners for apparently secular purposes. As an 'emic' account that proceeds inductively from the author's experience, it shows how each of these practices is an attempt to change the meaning of suffering through the creative medium of ritual. Rituals are often used as initiations from one form of subjectivity to another. Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Reiki are undert…
Weal and Woe: Suffering, Sociology, and the Emotions of Julian of Norwich
Sources of hope in chronic illness
Chronic illness is a form of suffering from which cure is unlikely but healing is possible. This paper reflects on the emotion of ‘hope’ in the context of such illnesses. Using Arthur Frank’s illness narrative types as a framework, it begins with sociological critiques of the discourse of hope in media stories about cancer (‘false hopes’). It considers the contrast between stories of ‘loss of self’ and ‘transcendence of self’ in the sociological …
Spirituality and healing in the sociology of chronic illness
The sociology of health and illness has paid little attention to the part that spiritual experiences and beliefs often play in healing, that is the self-transformation that may enable people to ‘live well' in the face of chronic illness. Part one describes problems that autobiographical accounts of spirituality can create for social theory, both as ‘experience’ and as claims to sources of knowledge beyond the ‘social’. Part two reviews the sociol…
Psychology (6 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Alternative medicine (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Spirituality (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)