Formulation Of Experience Research Articles

Techno-Nostalgic Forms of Digital Pilgrimage: Online Journeys into and out of Mount Athos

In further developing Helland’s model axis towards new typologies and fields of ‘digital religion’ ( Siouda, 2021 ), this article proposes one such dynamic arena of investigation to be that of ‘digital pilgrimages’ as part of the wider dialectic between ‘pilgrimage tourism’ and ‘digital monasticism’ focusing on the ‘ Athos Digital Heritage’ project. Under the perspective of pilgrimage studies, this article develops Helland’s axis from ‘religion online’ to the more specific type of pilgrimage online (referring to online journeys into the landscape by following designed digitised paths to the monasteries via their objects and art as referential points, or material ‘ remembrances’); and from ‘online religion’ towards the more specific online pilgrimage (referring to participation in both liturgical and pedagogical sessions with monks, as well as, in both private and collective online rituals and face-to-face online interactions). In developing Helland’s axis towards the formulation of experience that emerges out of the digital ‘landscape’, the article focuses on experiencing pilgrimage online as an outward output towards the material history of the ‘world’, while online pilgrimage as an inward path towards intersubjective ‘spiritual’ experiences of the ‘self’. The article ethnographically shows how the dialectics between these movements emerge out of the digitisation of the Athonian ‘ landscape’ and its socio-materiality as a place of remembrance (Ingold), giving pilgrimage a techno-nostalgic form by transferring its visual representation from its physical dimensions to the reinvented virtual metaverse of tourism pilgrimage online.

Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire

Saudade is interpreted as an ethereal concept dear to the Portuguese people. This intangible idea is often identified with a Portuguese cultural value signifying elusive states of longing, yearning, and wistfulness. This article demonstrates how the spatial realm of a former Portuguese colony, Macau, is experienced through the lens of saudade as an eluding, incorporeal, and culturally meaningful concept. The main goal of this research is to analyze the lived experiences of the Portuguese community in Macau shaped by emotional trajectories of the postcolonial city. This study continues the tradition of anthropological interpretations based on philosophical phenomenology. Anthropologically grounded phenomenology gives priority to acknowledging people’s formulation of experiences vis-á-vis specific cultural settings. It is an extension of “radical empiricism.” The article works with the concept of saudade to analyze the modalities of sensory perception within the former Portuguese city. Saudade is used as a discursive formation to look at cultural and epistemological manifestations of daily urban lived experiences of the Portuguese people in Macau.

Feels Like Me: Formulating the Embodied Mind

ABSTRACT The invitation extended to me by the Editors to contribute to this issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, centered on embodiment, made me realize that I had never explicitly addressed the subject. And so in this essay, without contextualizing my thoughts about embodiment in the large, existing literature on the topic, I begin to think through the relation of embodiment to the phenomena I have described over the course of the last forty years or so: unformulated experience, dissociation, enactment, and the interpersonal field. I also take up the relation of the verbal and the nonverbal, arguing that to grant a fundamental role to the body in psychoanalysis does not imply that language is secondary. I go on to present a schematic understanding of the role of embodied processes in the formulation of experience, and I end with an illustration of somatic life in clinical process.

Smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention in a coping-focused intervention for hearing voices (SAVVy): study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial

BackgroundSmartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention (EMA/I) show promise for enhancing psychological treatments for psychosis. EMA has the potential to improve assessment and formulation of experiences which fluctuate day-to-day, and EMI may be used to prompt use of therapeutic strategies in daily life. The current study is an examination of these capabilities in the context of a brief, coping-focused intervention for distressing voice hearing experiences.Methods/designThis is a rater-blinded, pilot randomised controlled trial comparing a four-session intervention in conjunction with use of smartphone EMA/I between sessions, versus treatment-as-usual. The recruitment target is 34 participants with persisting and distressing voice hearing experiences, recruited through a Voices Clinic based in Melbourne, Australia, and via wider advertising. Allocation will be made using minimisation procedure, balancing of the frequency of voices between groups. Assessments are completed at baseline and 8 weeks post-baseline. The primary outcomes of this trial will focus on feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and trial methodology, with secondary outcomes examining preliminary clinical effects related to overall voice severity, the emotional and functional impact of the voices, and emotional distress.DiscussionThis study offers a highly novel examination of specific smartphone capabilities and their integration with traditional psychological treatment for distressing voices. Such technology has potential to enhance psychological interventions and promote adaptation to distressing experiences.Trial registrationAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry, ACTRN12617000348358. Registered on 7 March 2017.

Lessons from literature for psychotherapy practice and research1.

Insights from the study of literature can inform and clarify concepts to guide psychotherapy practice and research. The author offers instances from narrative fiction (Durrell's Alexandria Quartet) and poetry (Hopkins, Baudelaire) to illustrate how the formulation of experience in words that are evocative (vs. ordinary), original (vs. trite), and precise (vs. approximate) are able to capture attention, move the emotions, and challenge beliefs; and how linkages among experiences, vividly and precisely expressed, create and enhance narrative meaning-revealing the inherent relativity of individual meanings and the need to consider the aggregate of relevant perspectives in every interpersonal situation.

Temperature, Color and the Brain: An Externalist Reply to the Knowledge Argument

It is argued that the knowledge argument fails against externalist theories of mind. Enclosing Mary and cutting her off from some properties denies part of the physical world to Mary, which has the consequence of denying her certain kinds of physical knowledge. The externalist formulation of experience is shown to differ in vehicle, content, and causal role from the internalist version addressed by the knowledge argument, and is supported by results from neuroscience. This means that though the knowledge argument has some force against material internalists, it misses the mark entirely against externalist accounts.

De como o acontecimento se torna: reflexões sobre experiência e partilha

Ao considerar que o acontecimento não é apenas da ordem do que ocorre, mas de como ele se torna, o artigo se volta para a relação que partilhar a experiência e dar a conhecer denotam. O presente texto analisa os livros Palestinos, os novos judeus (1977) e Entre árabes e judeus: uma reportagem de vida (1991), da jornalista Helena Salem, do Jornal do Brasil à época da Guerra do Yom Kippur. Com apoio em uma leitura da narrativa, o artigo considera os livros como espaço de reflexão sobre a prática e o saber jornalísticos, de elaboração da crítica, de formulação da experiência e de fixação da memória.

Startling affect in therapeutic relationships: Relational formulation of experience*

Open internal boundaries allow therapists to receive patients’ unconscious communications and to hold disavowed affects and self states, thus making possible new relational and affective development. Such deep engagement with patients inevitably stirs intense feelings that may be difficult for therapists to bear. Unwanted affect and unconscious points of identification with patients may stimulate therapists’ shame and guilt leading to states of disequilibrium. A therapeutic stance which is fluid and open to intrapsychic and interpersonal influence, allows for the experience and elaboration of complex unconscious affects, points of identification and self‐other configurations. Clarity concerning intrapsychic and interpersonal boundaries in the therapeutic relationship is most helpful. Relational formulations of case material focusing on startling affects are offered.

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