Existentialism
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence.

29 Nov 2009 This article addresses nursing presence, a phenomenon essential to holistic nursing care. The concept is introduced and explained, supporting background information is reviewed, barriers are identified, and successful applications are illustrated in ... Read more...

Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice.

29 Nov 2009 The therapeutic nature of the nurse-patient relationship is grounded in an ethic of caring. Florence Nightingale envisioned nursing as an art and a science...a blending of humanistic, caring presence with evidence-based knowledge and exquisite ... Read more...

Shifting loyalties: reconsidering psychology's subject matter.

30 Aug 2009 Schwarz (IPBS: Integrative Psychology & Behavioral Science 43:3, 2009) cogently demonstrates that in conjunction with scientific conventionalism psychology has developed a rather deficient view of their subject matter: the human being. Psychology ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Existentialism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence. 29 Nov 2009
• Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice. 29 Nov 2009
• The death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life. 10 Sep 2009
• Shifting loyalties: reconsidering psychology's subject matter. 30 Aug 2009
• Healing relationships and the existential philosophy of Martin Buber. 11 Aug 2009
• Inner power, physical strength and existential well-being in daily life: relatives' experiences of receiving soft tissue massage in palliative home care. 30 Jul 2009
• Exploring the existential function of religion: the effect of religious fundamentalism and mortality salience on faith-based medical refusals. 30 Jul 2009
• Co-creating meaningful structures within long-term psychotherapy group culture. 29 Jun 2009
• Defending a coherent autobiography: when past events appear incoherent, mortality salience prompts compensatory bolstering of the past's significance and the future's orderliness. 31 May 2009
• Gender, intimacy, and risky sex: a terror management account. 31 May 2009
• Acceptance, grief and meaning. 30 May 2009
• [Dialogal phenomenology in the context of nursing science, a critical examination of a rather unknown research method] 30 May 2009
• Merleau-Ponty and me: some phenomenological reflections upon my recent bone marrow transplant. 30 May 2009
• Blowing in the (social) wind: implications of extrinsic esteem contingencies for terror management and health. 30 May 2009
• Peace of mind and sense of purpose as core existential issues among parents of children with cancer. 30 May 2009
• Early adulthood uprooted: transitoriness in young women with breast cancer. 29 Apr 2009
• Living being--non-being in the workplace. 30 Mar 2009
• The meaning of suffering in families: a humanbecoming perspective. 30 Mar 2009
• The essence of life purpose. 30 Mar 2009
• Existential concerns among patients with cancer and interventions to meet them: an integrative literature review. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Existentialism'

Definition: Philosophy based on the analysis of the individual's existence in the world which holds that human existence cannot be completely described in scientific terms. Existentialism also stresses the freedom and responsibility of the individual as well as the uniqueness of religious and ethical experiences and the analysis of subjective phenomena such as anxiety, guilt, and suffering. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D005086

Alternative terms: Existentialism; Existential Psychology; Psychology, Existential;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; psychology;

Tree Number: F02.739.418; K01.752.304;

Online Note: use EXISTENTIALISM to search EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY 1974-78

History Note: EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY was see under EXISTENTIALISM 1974-78