Matias Gay
Biographic Data
| ID | 4215478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matias Gay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matias |
| FAMILY NAME | Gay |
| SIGNATURE | GAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7006-3978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moral distortion and narrative death
Suicidal mass violence is often parsed through diagnostic categories, obscuring the symbolic patterns in perpetrators’ communications. This study advances a narrative – existential account of how such communications configure killing and self-destruction through a reflexive, interpretive synthesis of a bounded public corpus. We mapped recurrent metaphors, temporal constriction and ‘time talk’, virtue frames (mercy, justice, duty, glory), and broa…
Suicide-risk implications in legalising medical assistance in dying for mental disorders
Becoming death
Drowning in water
Revitalizing Brownfields
The study investigates the intersectionality between underutilized, contaminated land and environmental justice (EJ) focusing on funding allocations for environmental cleanup of brownfield sites by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Brownfields Program in the fiscal year 2023. The study analyzes grant applications submitted by Massachusetts municipalities and non-profit organizations to reveal EJ concerns, as perceived b…
Reconstructing the final narrative
Speaking to the self or others? Exploring existential, relational, and narrative identity in suicide notes using thematic and psychodynamic analysis
Suicide notes are unique linguistic expressions written at an existential threshold. This qualitative study explores how identity, defense, and meaning-making are symbolically constructed in such texts. Using an interpretivist lens, we analyzed 26 suicide notes through an integrated framework combining the Existential Network of Suicidal Identity (ENSI), Controls of Self-Deception (CsSD), and Suicidal Pursuit of Goals (SPG). Notes were treated as…
The Suicidal Clock
Objective This study reconceptualizes suicide as a collapse of lived temporality and narrative identity, framing suicidality as a progressive erosion of coherence, meaning, and chronological selfhood. Design and Method A qualitative, narrative-phenomenological synthesis was conducted using interpretative phenomenological analysis and thematic narrative coding. Data sources included ethically published suicide notes, psychological autopsy research…
Trait vulnerabilities and stressful life events
Efficient quantification procedures for data evaluation of portable X-ray fluorescence – Potential improvements for Palaeolithic cave art knowledge
Speaking to the self or others? Exploring existential, relational, and narrative identity in suicide notes using thematic and psychodynamic analysis
Suicide notes are unique linguistic expressions written at an existential threshold. This qualitative study explores how identity, defense, and meaning-making are symbolically constructed in such texts. Using an interpretivist lens, we analyzed 26 suicide notes through an integrated framework combining the Existential Network of Suicidal Identity (ENSI), Controls of Self-Deception (CsSD), and Suicidal Pursuit of Goals (SPG). Notes were treated as…
Efficient quantification procedures for data evaluation of portable X-ray fluorescence – Potential improvements for Palaeolithic cave art knowledge
Efficient quantification procedures for data evaluation of portable X-ray fluorescence – Potential improvements for Palaeolithic cave art knowledge
Trait vulnerabilities and stressful life events
Becoming death
Drowning in water
Revitalizing Brownfields
The study investigates the intersectionality between underutilized, contaminated land and environmental justice (EJ) focusing on funding allocations for environmental cleanup of brownfield sites by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Brownfields Program in the fiscal year 2023. The study analyzes grant applications submitted by Massachusetts municipalities and non-profit organizations to reveal EJ concerns, as perceived b…
Reconstructing the final narrative
Speaking to the self or others? Exploring existential, relational, and narrative identity in suicide notes using thematic and psychodynamic analysis
Suicide notes are unique linguistic expressions written at an existential threshold. This qualitative study explores how identity, defense, and meaning-making are symbolically constructed in such texts. Using an interpretivist lens, we analyzed 26 suicide notes through an integrated framework combining the Existential Network of Suicidal Identity (ENSI), Controls of Self-Deception (CsSD), and Suicidal Pursuit of Goals (SPG). Notes were treated as…
The Suicidal Clock
Objective This study reconceptualizes suicide as a collapse of lived temporality and narrative identity, framing suicidality as a progressive erosion of coherence, meaning, and chronological selfhood. Design and Method A qualitative, narrative-phenomenological synthesis was conducted using interpretative phenomenological analysis and thematic narrative coding. Data sources included ethically published suicide notes, psychological autopsy research…
Moral distortion and narrative death
Suicidal mass violence is often parsed through diagnostic categories, obscuring the symbolic patterns in perpetrators’ communications. This study advances a narrative – existential account of how such communications configure killing and self-destruction through a reflexive, interpretive synthesis of a bounded public corpus. We mapped recurrent metaphors, temporal constriction and ‘time talk’, virtue frames (mercy, justice, duty, glory), and broa…
Suicide-risk implications in legalising medical assistance in dying for mental disorders
Narrative (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Existentialism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)