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Kroppens mening. Studier i psykosomatiska lösningar.

Publicerad:2009-02-05
Uppdaterad:2012-03-29
Författare

Britt W. Bragée

Handledare

Professor Gunnar Karlsson och docent Jennifer Bullington, Stockholms universitet

Opponent

Professor Maria Nyström, Högskolan i Borås

Disputerat vid

SU – Stockholms universitet

Disputationsdag

2009-02-06

Titel (se)

Kroppens mening: Studier i psykosomatiska lösningar

Titel (eng)

Body meaning: Studies in psychosomatic solutions

Institution

Pedagogiska institutionen

Body meaning: Studies in psychosomatic solutions

Stress-related diagnoses such as burnout are a growing and alarming social trend, which affect more and more young people, especially women. These diagnoses are expressions of psychosomatic conditions in our contemporary society. The focus in this thesis has been to study meaning constitution when it does not lead to solutions to pressing problems but rather results in a psychosomatic breakdown. A phenomenological analysis was carried out that among other things shows that the road to the breakdown starts early in life, having to do with industrious but not successful attempts to win recognition for the persons individuality.

In the second study, physiological measures occurring concomitantly with the informants narratives showed that autonomous activity could be distinguished in patterns divided in two groups. One group pattern was linked to helplessness, high arousal and marked stress level and the second group pattern was characterized by hopelessness and a very low level of autonomous activity.

The conclusion of the thesis is that due to an inability to transform structures of thinking, feeling and behaving in a taxing situation, the psychosomatic breakdown can be understood as bodily attempts at meaning constitution, through bodily symptom and other forms of understanding. This, however, cannot help the person constitute meaning needed in order to solve the problematic situation. The reasons for this body/mind split are discussed.

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