Dreamy States and Cosmic Wanderings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Spiers (0000-0001-9261-068X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-77 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.1.50 |
| OpenAlex | W3021713903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
The medical model attributes religious and spiritual experiences in epilepsy to delusional or hallucinatory events, sometimes diagnosed as a form of ictal psychosis with its causation lying in epileptic symptomatology. Individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy rarely discuss experiences with medical professionals, fearing judgment and pathologization. I problematize understanding these experiences in a strictly biomedical manner. A medical case study is replaced by autoethnographic narrative to describe and analyze spiritual experiences from a nonmedical perspective. This approach emphasizes the phenomenology of the experience and its meaning for the life of the experient. Themes of illness, disclosure, and stigma become transformative
Causation · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Hermeneutic phenomenology · Lived experience · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Transformative learning · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Stigma of visible and invisible chronic conditions
WPA Position Statement on Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry
Stigma
The Vulnerable Observer
The Wounded Storyteller
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Reflexive Ethnography
Auto/Ethnography
Contemporary British Autoethnography
Epistemic Injustice and Illness
Overcoming the fear
Transpersonal Approaches to Autoethnographic Research and Writing
The Researcher as Autobiographer
Disability and identity
Gender, older female bodies and autoethnography
Living With Epilepsy
A Critique of Current Practice
Having epilepsy
In the Closet with Illness
The Fatal Flaw
Creating Criteria
Being epileptic
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |