Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Healing of soul'

In this study, I explored how nature writing could be seen as healing text. I described some common problems associated with the construction of trauma and grief narratives and examined how nature writers dealt with them. The study began with my frustration at being unable to write a healing narrative for myself and progressed as I integrated research that informed my own writing. The literature I read included a variety of perspectives, from Jungian and traditional psychotherapy to current writing theory. I used the theory to comment on the nature writing texts as I discovered them. Using the words and stories of nature writers to fuel my own, I explored how their writing was both personally reflective and socially aware. In particular, I examined the importance of the natural world as a significant "other" for the writers and analyzed how their relationship with nature brought meaning and solace to their grieving.

Money is one of the strongest driving forces in society today. Its power over the human experience is widespread, yet many people are blind to their relationship with money and the psychological effects it has on them. Money has become a taboo topic in present-day society; even in psychotherapy it is swept under the rug. Employing heuristic methodology, this thesis uses a depth psychological approach to explore how awareness of one’s relationship with money can facilitate the healing of wounds caused by the misuse of money. The author uses her personal experiences with the money complex, along with existing research, to better understand this phenomenon. The findings show that in raising awareness around one’s own money complex, one finds that money may be used as an instrument of the soul rather than just a mere instrument of functioning, or surviving, in today’s modern society.

This dissertation research investigated the experience and the transformational impact of the Person-Centered Soul Retrieval (PCSR) shamanic healing method of Shaman Ross Bishop on personal healing and transformation. PCSR is 1 intervention in a larger shamanic healing process which was modified from Mayan shamanism specifically for use in the United States and potentially for use in other Western societies. The intended result of the shamanic healing is transformation of the self towards wholeness, or integration of the inner parts of an individual, which is a goal inherent to transpersonal psychology. The potential for the use of this shamanic healing process in psychotherapy today is promising, yet evidence for its efficacy and impact was only anecdotal. The purpose of this study then, was to describe, analyze, and interpret the experience and the transformational impact of the specific process of PCSR, 1 aspect of the larger healing system. The current research used a case study method appropriate for exploratory and descriptive research. Based on the logic of replication, a multiple case study design with 5 independent cases was conducted. Participants received the PSCR intervention in 1 or more sessions, the number of which depended on participants’ individual therapeutic needs. Multiple sources of data included transcripts of all intervention sessions; session notes taken during each session; semistructured participant journal entries after each session, as well as at the end of the treatment cycle; and transcripts of a semistructured final interview with the participants. Data analysis included thematic content analysis with an inductive process to identify themes, as well as to discover descriptive evidence for themes. Pattern matching was used within each case, then aggregated across cases in a cross-case analysis. Results of all 5 of the individual cases and cross-case analyses support the efficacy of the PCSR intervention by demonstrating a significant transformative impact on all participants in emotional, cognitive, and/or behavioral areas.

This dissertation considers the characteristics of a sacred feminine perspective toward death and dying in today’s United States. A sacred feminine perspective as brought to the deathbed by women healers respects the sanctity of life; intuitively adopts a holistic perspective; and witnesses, not observes, the dying through active engagement on physical, psychological, and spiritual levels. A sacred feminine perspective affirms the dying person’s journey as one of self-acceptance and release. To explore this perspective’s healing power, I pose the following question: How can end-of-life caregiving and religious perspectives on dying be integrated toward a spiritual feminist perspective to create a new paradigm of care for the dying person?

To answer this inquiry, I explored from a phenomenological perspective the stories from end-of-life caregivers, primarily in the United States, as well as literature from other healing modalities to develop a framework that may be used by those assisting the dying. The methodologies I utilized for this study are women’s spiritual ways of knowing, including spiritual feminist hermeneutics. In my research, I applied narrative analysis—integrating organic and intuitive inquiry methods—to relevant literature, including stories from end-of-life caregivers about the types of care used in their work, as well as their interpretations of the dying persons’ experiences. This methodological integration allowed me to achieve a more nuanced understanding of the human experience of dying, and to develop and enhance skillful means for the sacred work of midwifing death.

In this theoretical study, I propose a model called the Body-Soul-Spirit Positionality Paradigm, which holds that each person lives as well as dies primarily through one of three dimensions of self: the body, the soul (defined here as feelings and thoughts), or the spirit. A major objective of this dissertation is the development and illustration of the Body-Soul-Spirit Positionality Paradigm as a practical/theoretical framework for addressing the specific physical, emotional/mental, and spiritual needs of the dying person to help them truly rest in peace.

By understanding the dying person’s positionality, the end-of-life doula will be able to provide personalized access to effective healing modalities such as the implementation of positionality blessing cards.

This thesis combines alchemical hermeneutic and participatory phenomenological methods to study the synchronicity of spontaneous trauma healing through reparative heart-centered attachment, group, and psyche work. It seeks to identify the archetypal, shamanic, noetic, mythopoetic, and psychodynamic power of groups to transform traumatic wounds—in light of Donald Winnicott’s “good enough” and somatic gestalt concepts—into altruistic, compassionate, mindful acceptance, and resiliency. It explores ideas of healing through examining the history of trauma, the effects of trauma on attachment and relational behaviors, neuroscience, universal ideas of compassion, mindful awareness, yoga, and meditation. The author immersed herself in different groups and self-healing practices and then processed her experiences through Jungian, psychoanalytic, somatic, depth, spiritual, meditation, and traditional lenses as described by Carl G. Jung, Donald Kalsched, Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Joseph Campbell, Andrew Solomon, and Mary Main.

Thesis advisor: Danny G. Willis
Abstract Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) survivors are at risk of suffering from myriad physical, emotional, relational, spiritual, and energetic aftereffects. Scant research has addressed healing of spiritual and energetic aftereffects, especially sense of fragmentation/soul loss. No published research has addressed shamanic healing for CSA survivors. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative descriptive research was to describe the use of shamanic healing as a complementary health approach for adult CSA survivors from the perspectives of shamanic healers. A qualitative descriptive design was used in this research. In-depth semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 15 shamanic practitioners. Interviews focused on the shamanic practitioners’ perspectives of CSA healing from western and shamanic viewpoints, shamanic methods of assessment, intervention, evaluation of outcomes, and benefits for adult CSA survivors. Interview data were analyzed using conventional qualitative content analysis, including coding, sorting, and categorizing. Shamanic practitioners described the Western viewpoint on CSA healing as limited in scope by not adequately addressing energetic and spiritual aftereffects, with the potential to leave the survivor stuck in victim mode. In contrast, the shamanic perspective was described as an expanded paradigm for CSA healing, extending beyond the individual to multigenerational healing. CSA was framed as an event in the survivor’s life that served as a teacher of life lessons, inviting the survivor to live up to one’s full potential and not be defined by CSA. The findings indicated that shamanic healing has the potential to facilitate transformative integrative healing of the adult CSA survivor by addressing the relational, spiritual, energetic, and multigenerational impact of CSA. Shamanic healing involved integrating the survivor’s perceived lost soul parts (vital energy) back into consciousness, clearing toxic energy, and restoring energy flow. The findings have implications for nursing education, theory, practice, research, and policy. The findings can serve as a foundation for designing future research on shamanic healing to address the full spectrum of healing needs of adult CSA survivors
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Connell School of Nursing
Discipline: Nursing

den här upsatsen kommer att diskutera en helhetssyn som delas av mina informanter vilka arbetar som komplementärmedicinska terapeuter. Dessa terapeuter ser på kroppen ur tre tre olika vinklar. De upplever att människan har en fysisk, en emotionell och en själslig del som behöver ses över under en behandling och jag finner att denna syn på människan delar de med exempelvis shamaner. Jag kommer att jämnföra denna typ av helhetssyn med den västerländska medicinens helhetssyn för att se vad eller om det finns någon skillnad.
This paper will be discussing a holistic approach used by my informants who works as complementary medical therapists. These therapists looks at the body from three different angles. They tell me that the body has a physical. an emotional and a soul level that needs to be looked at during a treatment and I find that this approach is shared with for example shamans. I will be comparing this holistic approach with how the western medicine talks about holistic approach to see what or if there is a difference.

The diploma thesis concerns my life project ZaBřehem and my activity in this project, which has the character of cooperation, organization, DIY, home design, web design, painting, crafts and over time also cultural organization and curation. The work goes through several components of the whole project and aims to defend the role of the artist in creating a new place that has the ambition to change the approach to people diagnosed with mental illness. At the same time, it focuses on the space specifically of one of the rooms, the layout of which the author considers her own work, as well as the method of transferring this space to the school premises for defense, which will create another site-specific installation.

Le thème de ce travail est l'autoréparation par microencapsulation et incorporation dans un revêtement polymère (polyimide, résine. . . ) pouvant subir une dégradation. Dans notre étude, nous nous intéresserons tout particulièrement à l'autoréparation des matériaux pour une application aérospatiale. Le choix de l'agent autoréparant dépend directement des conditions physiques de l'espace (température maximum : +300°C coté exposé aux rayons solaires, -120°C coté non exposé aux rayons solaires, radiations UV 200-400 nm et une pression de 10[-4] Pa). Notre choix s'est donc porté sur le triméthylolpropane triacrylate. Les microcapsules obtenues par différents procédés d'encapsulation tels que la polymérisation, la polycondensation interfaciale et la polymérisation sol-gel ont été étudiées. Les analyses spectroscopique (IR : infrarouge) et thermique (ATG : analyse thermogravimétrique) nous ont permis de montrer la présence de l'agent de réparation dans les microcapsules synthétisées, quelque soit le procédé employé. Cependant, l'encapsulation par polymérisation sol-gel est la plus adaptée. L'incorporation de ces particules chargées en agent autoréparant dans une matrice polyimide a permis l'autoréparation après endommagement de ce dernier. En effet, l'agent autoréparant libéré par contrainte mécanique a polymérisé après 20 minutes d'irradiations UV
The aim of this work is self-healing by microencapsulation and incorporation into a polymer coatmg (polyimide, resin. . . ) may undergo degradation. In our study, we focus particularly on the self-healing materials for aerospace applications. The choice of healing agent depends directly of physical conditions in space (maximum temperature : 300 °C solar side, -120 °C dark side, UV radiations 200-400 nm and a low pressure 10[-4] Pa). Our choice is a trimethylolpropane triacrylate monomer. The microcapsules obtained by various encapsulation processes such as polymerization, interfacial polycondensation and sol-gel polymerization have been studied. Spectroscopic (IR : infrared) and thermal (TGA : thermogravimetric analysis) analysis have showed the presence of the healing agent in the synthesized microcapsules, whatever the process used. However, encapsulation by sol-gel polymerization is most adapted. The incorporation of these particles loaded in healing agent in a polyimide coating has the self-repair after damage of the latter. Indeed, the self-healing agent released by mechanical stress was cured after 20 minutes of UV irradiations

Les composites à fibres et matrice céramiques sont des matériaux structuraux utilisés pour des applications aéronautiques, c'est à dire subissant des contraintes mécaniques et thermiques, en milieux oxydants et corrosifs et à température élevée. La résistance à l’oxydation/corrosion de ces matériaux est liée à leur capacité à s’auto-protéger par la formation d’un oxyde nappant la surface et limitant l’accès de l’oxygène vers le coeur du matériau. Des matrices multi-séquencées auto-cicatrisantes constituées de phases borées ont ainsi été conçues. Elles engendrent la formation d’une phase protectrice borosilicatée par oxydation dès les basses températures (i.e. à partir de 450°C). Lors de leurs applications, les pièces seront soumises à des cyclages thermomécaniques venant modifier la diffusion d’O2 à coeur, la répartition des oxydes liquides ainsi que leur état. La démarche expérimentale mise en place afin de caractériser l’influence de l’oxyde sur le comportement du matériau se dissocie en quatre parties : (i) identifier le comportement intrinsèque mécanique etthermique du matériau (à température ambiante, à haute température sous atmosphère neutre, enfatigue thermique), (ii) mettre en évidence une éventuelle interaction entre l’oxyde présent dans lematériau et le comportement mécanique macroscopique de ce dernier, (iii) déterminer si la viscosité del’oxyde (très dépendante de la température) vient modifier les transfert de charge F/M et (iv) observer quel peut être le comportement du matériau lorsque de la fatigue cyclique est réalisée en même temps qu’une rampe thermique, l’alternance d’ouverture/fermeture des fissures pouvant altérer l’auto-cicatrisation du matériau
Composites made of Ceramic for both fibers and matrix aimed at being used in aerospace applications, that is to say, under mechanical stresses at high temperatures in oxidizing and corrosive environments. Resistance to oxidation /corrosion of these materials is linked to their ability to self-heal by creating anoxide phase limiting access of oxygen to the bulk of the material. Multi-sequenced self-healingmatrices made of boron containing phases were thus designed to promote the formation of a protective borosilicate phase by oxidation at low temperatures (i.e. starting at about 450°C). Parts made of this material subjected to thermomechanical cycles which will possibly change the distribution of O2 in the bulk as well as that of liquid oxides and their state. The experimental approach developed to characterize the influence of the oxide material behavior dissociates into four parts: (i) identify the intrinsic mechanical and thermal behavior of the material (at room temperature, in neutral atmosphere at high temperature in thermal fatigue), (ii) highlight a possible interaction between the oxide present in the material and the macroscopic mechanical behavior of the composite, (iii)determine if the viscosity of the oxide (very temperature dependent) modifies the charge transferF/M and (iv) observe what may be the behavior of the material when the cyclic fatigue is performed in conjunction with a thermal ramp, alternating the opening /closing of cracks that could alter the self-healing material

Les composants optiques (miroirs, lentilles, hublots…) présents sur les chaînes du Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) sont susceptibles de s’endommager sous flux laser de forte énergie en particulier à la longueur d’onde 351 nm. Les dommages se présentent sous la forme de cratères de quelques micromètres de diamètre qui apparaissent et croissent en face arrière des optiques en silice. Dans ce contexte, le but de ces travaux est de développer des revêtements de protection qui visent, par leurs propriétés d’amortissement au choc, d’autocicatrisation, ou de post réparation, à limiter la croissance de ces dommages. Des couches minces, de quelques micromètres d’épaisseur ont été préparées par procédé sol-gel et déposées sur la face arrière des optiques. L’élaboration de ces couches s’effectue par la synthèse sol-gel d’une solution composée d’un précurseur de silice et d’un élastomère polydiméthylsiloxane (PDMS)
The optical devices (lents, mirrors, portholes…) that are set on the chains of the Laser Megajoule (LMJ) may be damaged by the high energy laser beam especially around the UV wavelength of 351 nm. The damages are micronics craters on the rear of the optics that grows exponentially after each laser shots. The study aim at developing some optical thin coatings on the rear of the optical substrates to prevent the growth of the damage by amortizing the laser shockwave, self-healing the craters that has appeared, or repairing the laser hole after the damage occurs. The thin coatings have been prepared by a sol-gel method by using silica precursor and a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer. The two species reacted together to get a hybrid organic-inorganic Ormosil (organically modified silica) material, by creating a silica network linked to the PDMS species with covalent and hydrogens bounds. The thin layers are obtained from the sol-gel solution by using a dip and spin coating method

The present work provides an insight in the development of silica films prepared by water-based sol-gel process. The weaknesses of the coating technology are identified, also solutions are discussed. The silica film is applied on aluminium alloy 6082-T6 and magnesium alloy AZ31. The development of the coating properties such as cost-efficiency, crack-free, self-healing and long-term corrosion protection is the main topic of this work. Cracking is the major drawback of silica films; the cracks are generated due to shrinkage of the film during the heat treatment, nanoparticles-doped silica film is successfully reduced the shrinkage which leads to crack-free silica films. The self-healing of the coated aluminium and magnesium samples is generated by corrosion inhibitors-doped silica film. When a defect appears in the film, the corrosion inhibitors leach out of the silica film to the defect area to heal the corroded surface. The long-term corrosion protection is realized by means of a mixture of corrosion inhibitors-doped silica film
Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert einen Einblick in die Entwicklung von Silikafilmen, die mittels Sol-Gel-Prozess auf Wasserbasis hergestellt wurden. Die Schwächen der Beschichtungstechnologie werden dargestellt und Lösungen diskutiert. Der Silikafilm wird auf Aluminiumlegierung 6082-T6 und Magnesium-legierung AZ31 aufgebracht. Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung der Schichteigenschaften, wie Kosteneffizienz, Rissfreiheit, Selbstheilung so wie langfristiger Korrosionsschutz. Rissbildung ist ein wesentlicher Nachteil von Silikafilmen; rissfreie Filme wurden mittels nanopartikeldotierter Silikafilme hergestellt. Die Selbstheilung von Aluminium-und Magnesiumsubstraten mit Silikafilm wird durch den Effekt der wasserlöslichen Korrosionsinhibitoren generiert. Die Experimente haben gezeigt, dass die Proben mit inhibitordotierter Beschichtung selbst gegen Korrosion geschützt sind. Ein langfristiger Korrosionsschutz wird durch eine Mischung aus Korrosionsinhibitor-dotierten Silika-Film realisiert

Dans le but d’une introduction en aéronautique civile, la certification des composites à matrice céramique(CMC) requiert la justification de la tenue du matériau durant toute la durée de vie de l’avion (50000h environ),dans des milieux oxydants à haute température et sous les contraintes élevées rencontrées en application. Lebut de cette thèse est d’identifier comment accélérer les essais de vieillissement pour obtenir sur de pluscourtes périodes de temps des essais représentatifs du comportement du matériau en conditions standard. Lecomposite étudié étant doté d’une matrice auto-cicatrisante dont l’efficacité est liée de manière complexe à latempérature et à l’humidité présente dans le milieu oxydant, une compréhension fine des mécanismes dedégradation est nécessaire afin de choisir des leviers d’accélération pertinents. L’influence de paramètresd’essai sélectionnés (pression partielle d’eau, type de chargement mécanique, fréquence de cyclagemécanique, température) sur les cinétiques d’endommagement est analysée, tout en vérifiant que lesmécanismes de dégradation ne sont pas modifiés. La mise en place de méthodes de suivi d'endommagementnon-destructives est indispensable pour quantifier en temps réel les niveaux de dégradation des matériauxsous différentes conditions expérimentales: le suivi par émission acoustique a été utilisé et une techniqueoriginale de suivi par mesure de résistance électrique durant des essais de longue durée a été développée.Deux modèles électro-mécaniques ont été proposés concernant l’évolution de résistance électrique àtempérature ambiante et sous conditions oxydantes. Des estimations de durées de vie basées sur cestechniques ont permis de proposer une méthodologie vers l’accélération d’essais sur CMC
With the aim of an introduction in civil aeronautics, the certification of Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC)requires to demonstrate the correct behavior of the material during the whole lifetime of the aircraft (about50000h), in high-temperature oxidizing environments and under the stress levels required by the applications.The goal of this thesis is to identify a methodology to accelerate ageing tests in order to get, in shorterdurations, results that are representative of the behavior of the material in standard conditions. The studiedcomposite includes a self-healing matrix which efficiency is linked in a complex way to temperature andhumidity. A thorough understanding of degradation mechanisms is therefore required in order to identifyrelevant accelerating levers. The influence of the selected test parameters (water partial pressure, type ofmechanical loading, frequency of cyclic loading, temperature) on the damage kinetics has been analyzed, whilechecking that the damage mechanisms were not modified. Non destructive monitoring techniques are essentialto quantify in real time the damage level of materials under different test conditions: acoustic emissionmonitoring has been used, and an original method of damage monitoring using electrical resistivity has beendeveloped. Two electromechanical models were proposed, describing the evolution of electrical resistance atroom temperature and under oxidizing conditions. Lifetime estimations based on these techniques led topropose a methodology towards accelerated testing on CMCs

The Confessions of Augustine was a dual conversation--on the one side, between Augustine and God; on the other between Augustine and his reader. This thesis seeks to make a connection to the inner-struggles openly exposed by St. Augustine in his writing Confessions and the inner-struggles we (and I in particular) face in today's search for inner peace. In Chapter 1, I introduce Augustine's search for inner peace through his intellectual, emotional, spiritual and authentic analysis of (a) his affiliation with different philosophies and (b) his own conscious and unconscious behaviour in daily upheavals, challenges and struggles. In doing so Augustine challenged me to emulate his search since it has been, and still is, my life long passion to find answers to the questions life presents me with. In Chapters 2-9 I challenge the reader and myself with topics that were relevant then and are relevant now. The topics discussed are all open to personal interpretation, never the less intended to make the reader aware of the need for self reflection since ultimately we are all responsible for our own choices and actions (or non-actions).

碩士
玄奘大學
宗教與文化學系碩士在職專班
107
The main purpose of this study is to explore the spiritual growth of self-recognition, ascension, and the healing experience of the body-mind-soul from the author’s personal life. The author, a person who had been cared, was transformed into an active person to care others. That is, from the experience of being taken care of, the author becomes a helper to devote herself to the society. Eight research participants were invited to share their life experiences through qualitative research methods, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic non-structural interviews to conduct the whole research and analysis. The eight research participants who participated in the interview had different religious beliefs or folk custom experiences. The eight participants’ life experiences explored in the thesis include such various issue dimensions as their intrinsic family, marriage family, health conditions, spiritual intrinsic, or how they seek their life missions. After having faced such economic difficulties or the bindings of negative emotions as confusion, anger, self-abandonment, and self-destruction behavior, one has made up his mind to stand up again and to outstretch his mental journey through the modern spiritual learning, meditation, or any other kind of religious contact. Besides, one has made other different life choices by way of deep learning and practicing Buddhist Dharma or folk beliefs, which have various influences on both his internal psychology and external physiology. The participants in this research, in the face of various life issues, have found the stability and internal dependence of the emotions, have united both the body and mind, and have completed the spiritual life through religious beliefs, religious feelings, religious experiences, and religious practicing processes. In the beginning, these participants are able to accept themselves, affirm themselves, make their own minds and bodies settled, admit and accept their family with love, and tolerate their family and relatives. Then, they have put the physical, spiritual, and divine properties into unity. And at last, with love, they’ve influenced and helped those people around them to transform their own lives and then turn over a new leaf. In the research, the participants get to know how to practice and implement their theory into such daily routines as eating, getting dressed, living, and taking vehicles. In addition, they are supposed to learn how to grow and become mature through the healing, transformation, change, and self-life growth of the body-mind-soul life narratives.

碩士
南華大學
生死學研究所
98
This is an exploratory study which first attempt to combine the traditional Chinese fortune-telling technique and the study of name with the past-life hypnotherapy used in Western Psychiatry, using in a practical work of helping others. The study is aim to explore the influences on body, mind and soul healing of the cases by passing through the integrated helping model of numerology counseling (fortunetelling, name-changing) and past-life hypnosis experiences, as well as the influences of the counseling healing relationship between help seekers and helping workers of numerology and hypnosis on this integrated helping model. By a long-term observation on fortune-telling and hypnosis fields, the researcher applied purposeful sampling of a qualitative study, selecting people who had experienced two or more numerology counseling (fortunetelling, name-changing) and past-life hypnosis experiences as the objects, at least after more than three months for the time-tested, adopting the retrospective in-depth interview to collect the contextual data from 11 respondents. Then, according to three dimensions of body (physical illness), mind (personality and thought, feelings and marriage, parent-child and interpersonal relationships, career and money, self-confidence and self-worth), as well as soul and spirituality (communication with dead family members, blueprint for the future, religion and spirituality), the synthetic theme analysis was carried out. 　 　　The findings of this study show that the assistance experiences of numerology counseling (fortunetelling, name-changing) and past-life hypnosis for most cases on body, mind and soul healing have an obvious positive influence. According to the overall study, the conclusions are made divided into two major parts as following. 　 　　I. Numerology consulting (fortunetelling, name-changing) and past-life hypnosis on the influence of body, mind and soul healing: 1. In the physical aspect, fortunetelling only shows the weak part of the health, unable to provide treatment directly, but plays the role of drawing attention for the cases. Root lesions could be found through past-life hypnosis, most of the symptoms could be improved after releasing the cell memory off. 2. In the mental aspect, fortunetelling and divination could help guide the direction for the cases on the consciousness, stay out of trouble, and know what they are. Past-life hypnosis could change the original cognitive judgments of the cases in the subconscious, help them understand the causes and release their mind, will to put down, and know why they are. Research evidences from the text show that both past and present life are relevant about all the information on person (body, personality, habits, feelings and relationships), things (events and processes, business), and property (money). Name-changing is a strong positive self-implied, having a significant impact about the change in personality, interpersonal relationships, as well as improving self-confidence, increasing wealth, that is the fastest affect of the three methods on changing fortune. 3. In the soul and spiritual aspect, hypnosis into the soul palace could help adjust the fortune about all aspects of body, mind and soul, also could assist in dealing with the infant spirits, communicate with dead family members, its effectiveness is similar to grief counseling. To predict the future by fortunetelling and hypnosis could enhance self-confidence, and increase hope for the future. The spiritual activities could be opened through hypnosis, both fortune-telling and hypnosis could help find the life lesson or mission. The experiences in the integrated helping model could enough to cover the full body, mind and soul healing for all problems, and have the greatest help, too. 　 　　II. The influences of the counseling healing relationship between help seekers and helping workers on the integrated helping model of numerology counseling (fortunetelling, name-changing) and past-life hypnosis: 1. 90% of the help seekers in this study were female, reasons for seeking help were the problem of mind and soul mostly. They came for help most because of their feelings problems, parent-child relationships and predicting the future were the next. The characteristics of the help seekers mostly were not to accept fate, to take the initiative in seeking help, with insecurity about the future, lacking self-confidence, and with bad fortune as well as encountering a dilemma. 2. The cases expect that the helping workers of numerology and hypnosis could help to achieve the goals such as solving the problems, understanding the causes and releasing their mind, realizing the fate and creating a new life, with self-confidence to the future, and completing the life lesson. 3. The agreement with the integrated helping model as well as the trust with fortunetellers and hypnotists by the cases are the key to success of the helping work. 　 　　Based on the findings, we provide some concrete suggestions for future research in order to provide the reference for relevant helping workers in the future as counseling.

Within this thesis, the author recognizes that the technocratic thinking about AIDS Silin warned against has become the standard upon which much of AIDS education is based today. The author demonstrates the necessity of rethinking constructions that have reduced AIDS education and the complex pandemic to simple facts about the HI virus and its transmission. Technicist understandings of the pandemic, the author suggests, have resulted in technicist approaches to AIDS education.

碩士
淡江大學
英文學系碩士班
96
Abstract： Louise Erdrich’s novels are full of the web-like images and emphasize the interconnection among characters. In this thesis, I analyze Louise Erdrich’s Four Souls, which deals with the story of the heroine’s journey of revenge, which are interlaced with the stories of the two narrators. I regard the three topics of my thesis, revenge, identity crisis, and healing, as a “hoop of awareness” for the main characters of the novel. Grasping such a hoop can help reader to understand the unique culture and social conditions of Native Americans. In the introduction of my thesis, I summarize the story of Four Souls, and introduce the Erdrich’s narrative characteristics. Moreover, I compare the cyclic journey of Fleur with Joseph Campbell’s description of “heroic cycle.” In chapter one, I discuss the theme of retaliation, which unifies the threads of the narratives of this novel. There are three revenge scenarios in Four Souls. Here, I discuss the issue of revenge with reference to the principle of game. For one thing, the major characters’ revenges are proceed with trickster-like strategies of game; for the other, I argue that the process and result of revenge is regarded as a game, which release the heated tension of conflict. In chapter two, I deal with the functions of naming and the issues of identity formation. A name not only represents one’s identity, but also is endowed with responsibility. I use Kelly Oliver’s theory on “witnessing” to discuss the theme of identity formation. In chapter three, I dwell on the problem of identity crisis and the healing way of Native Americans. I use a diagram to show the healing relationship among the characters in the novel. The “medicine dress,” an important tool of healing in the novel, implies the importance of personal experience and is delineated with significance of ecofeminism.

This research journey examines the process of co-creating, along with my co-travellers (research participants), a more holistic approach to trauma debriefing. Whilst incorporating elements of Mitchell's (1983) Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing model (C.I.S.D.), our point of difference has been to adopt a narrative pastoral approach. This was achieved by introducing spirituality and narrative therapy practices. Our research pathway has been further shaped by adopting a qualitative research approach within a postmodern, social construction discourse. My research curiosity was invited by both the mind, body and soul divide expressed in psychology; and the healing possibilities of spirituality I have witnessed in both my own and in the lives of others. While my co-travellers predominantly preferred to express their spirituality in terms of Christianity, our narrative pastoral approach to trauma debriefing is offered to people of all religious persuasions.
Practical Theology
M.Th. (with specialisation in Pastoral therapy)

Si un texte ne peut être blessé comme l’est un corps, une lecture peut effectivement avoir cet effet blessant qui se porte sur le corps textuel, et sur celui de la personne qui lit. Le remède s’incarnera autant dans la langue que dans l’attention – comme prélude, et forme de soin – portée à l’humain. Le théâtre et ses scènes sont depuis longtemps le lieu où est accomplie la guérison, à l’aide du langage et des gestes : lieux où les regards médical et littéraire mettent en œuvre leurs méthodes interprétatives respectives. À partir du personnage Woyzeck dans la pièce éponyme (1836) de Georg Büchner, seront comparées ces perspectives de lecture en contexte de soin. Woyzeck, lui-même un patient, vu les troubles indicibles qui l’animent, devient malgré lui la scène d’expérimentations médicales et de jeux de pouvoir qui le rendent de plus en plus « illisible », à lui-même et à qui le lit. Le présent travail est consacré au rôle du lectorat dans le processus herméneutique et sur la valeur que sa résistance à une interprétation pathologisante – qui ne cherche pas de symptômes dans le texte – peut apporter au récit, et au remède. La forme même de la pièce fragmentaire rapproche la position de Woyzeck de celle du lectorat, condamnant ce dernier à errer d’une scène à l’autre, comme le personnage accablé de visions insensées. À chaque lecture le choix s’impose soit de faire avec l’incomplétude du texte, posture nécessaire à l’interprétation littéraire, ou d’en diagnostiquer les absences. Au premier chapitre, il est question du lien opéré par le corps malade comme médium premier qui relie les domaines médicaux et théâtraux : un survol historique de ce rapport vient le complexifier par l’exemple. Au deuxième chapitre, le corps malade et la scène sont considérés ensemble comme lieu de savoir, et le corps défini selon ce que ce lieu permet comme limites et possibilités. Enfin, le troisième chapitre expose l’exercice d’une lecture non-pathologique du cas Woyzeck – le personnage, le texte, les mises en scènes – afin de composer une interprétation qui prenne en compte les multiples langages inhérents au texte. L'hermétisme apparent de la pièce y est excavé en procédant depuis plusieurs perspectives. L’approche intermédiale qui sous-tend cette analyse, à travers la relation du théâtre avec le remède, permet d’éclairer la profondeur de l’influence de la pièce de Büchner sur l’histoire du théâtre, et de la lecture.
If a text cannot be injured as can the body, reading can effectively have an injurious effect that is carried by the text, and by the person who reads it. Its remedy is embodied as much in the language as in the attention – as a prelude, and form of care – carried to the human. Theatre and its stages have long been places of healing, through language and gesture: a place where medical and literary perspectives carry out their respective interpretative methods. From the character Woyzeck in Georg Büchner’s eponymous play (1836), a comparison of these reading perspectives is made in the context of care. Woyzeck, himself a patient, given his ineffable illnesses, becomes despite himself the stage of medical experiments and power games that rend him more and more unreadable, to himself and those who read him. The present study is dedicated to the role of the reader in the hermeneutic process and to the value that one’s resistance to a pathologizing interpretation – that does not look for symptoms in the text – can contribute to the story, and to the remedy. Even the fragmentary form of the play positions Woyzeck close that of the reader, condemning the latter to ramble from one scene to another, as the character who is afflicted with frantic visions. At each reading one must compose with the incompleteness of the text, a posture necessary for literary interpretation, or one must diagnose the gaps in the text. The first chapter concerns the link between the diseased body as the first medium that links the domains of medicine and theatre: a historic review of this link will complexify it through examples. In the second chapter, the diseased body and the stage are considered as a combined space of knowledge, and the body defined according to the limits and possibilities of this site. Finally, the third chapter presents a non-pathologic reading of the case of Woyzeck – the character, text, the staging – in order to compose an interpretation that considers the multiple languages inherent to the text. The apparent hermeticism of the play is excavated by proceeding from several perspectives. The intermedial approach underlying this analysis, through the relation between theatre and healing, illuminates the profound influence of the play of Büchner on the history of theatre, and of reading.