1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955145603321

Autore

Jeffs Sandy <1953->

Titolo

The wings of angels : a memoir of madness / / Sandy Jeffs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

North Melbourne, Vic., : Spinifex Press, 2004

ISBN

9781742194806

174219480X

9781742192260

1742192262

9781742192246

1742192246

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 p.)

Disciplina

821.3

A821.3

Soggetti

Schizophrenia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; AKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; Where My Nightmares Wrestled with My Dreams; Where Angels Sang; The Wings of Angels; The Untamed Dark Wood; Death by a Devouring; Standing on the Balcony; The Wrath: Eviction; The Agony Begins/The Scream; Mounting the Tumbrel; Crossing the Rogue River; At the Gate; The Prisoner; Brave New Virtual World; Adventures in Underworld; Into the Flames of the Other Side; God's Body Odour; Song of the Supermarket Sirens; The Sorrows Gather; Tinsel Paradise Lost; A Game of Cards; The Wanderer; High-Tech Technicolour Armageddon

A Landscape of the DeadThe Words of the Prophets; The Tower of Lamentation; Where Everyone is an Informer; Adrift in a Land with No Memory; A Grief-stricken Land; The Land of Weeping Women; The Broken Land; Where the Music has Fallen Silent; The Noise of the Pit; Voices in the Dark; What the Voices Say; Where the Mad are Pilloried; Lost in Cyberspace; Where My Soul is Driven Out of My Body; Where God is Only a Word; . . . and the Angels are Mad; The Dead Tell Tales; Tales of the City/New Jerusalem; Sexless in this Tormented City; A Postcard from the Edge; The Witness



Other poetry titles from Spinifex Press

Sommario/riassunto

Plumbing the depths of human experience in her journey into madness, Sandy Jeffs shares her experience in this collection of poetry reminiscent of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. With stark dignity and intense fear, these poems cross into a realm where nightmares wrestle with dreams, death by devouring is a way station, and the underworld becomes a tourist destination. In the midst of this darkness, Jeffs's leavening sense of humor peoples her descent with the sirens of the supermarket, a high-tech, technicolor Armageddon, and a modern Cerberus with three heads: Ken, Barbie, and Ronald McDo

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483955003321

Titolo

Qualitative Studies in Quality of Life : Methodology and Practice / / edited by Graciela Tonon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-13779-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Social Indicators Research Series, , 1387-6570 ; ; 55

Disciplina

305.072

Soggetti

Quality of life

Ethnopsychology

Medicine - Research

Social sciences

Quality of Life Research

Cross Cultural Psychology

Methodology of the Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: The Relevance of the Use of Qualitative Methods for the Study of Quality of Life; Graciela Tonon -- Chapter 2: The Qualitative Researcher in Quality of Life Field; Graciela Tonon -- Chapter 3: The



Role of the Context and the Culture in Quality of Life Studies; Lia Rodriguez de la Vega -- Chapter 4: Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in quality of life studies; Graciela Tonon -- Chapter 5: Qualitative Methodologies in Geography, Contributions to the Study of Quality of Life; Claudia Mikkelsen and Josefina Di Nucci -- Chapter 6: Qualitative Studies in Health Related Quality of Life: the Case of Young People Living with HIV/AIDS; Milton Décima -- Chapter 7: Children’s quality of life in the Caribbean: a qualitative study; Maria Dilia Mieles Barrera – Graciela Tonon -- Chapter 8: Qualitative Studies of Young People’s Quality of Life in Urban and Rural Areas; Lucia Zanabria Ruiz -- Chapter 9: Young people’s rural quality of life in the Colombian Andes: a qualitative study using triangulation; Antonio Lopez Lopez --  Chapter 10: A Qualitative Study about Yoga Practice in Quality of Labor Life; Lia Rodriguez de la Vega.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods for the study of quality of life. It analyzes the role of qualitative researcher and the role of the context and the culture in quality of life studies. It presents the use of qualitative methods in real projects carried out in specific fields: geography, health, community studies, labor life and yoga. Finally, the book proposes the use of mixed methods that are considered as the third methodological approach in social research. The main purpose of using qualitative methods is to understand what it means for participants to be involved in certain events, situations and actions. Such methods help understand the context in which participants act and the influence of that context on their actions. The decision to use a particular methodology implies a philosophic, theoretical and political decision. Qualitative methodology constitutes an approach that is essential for understanding people’s experiences of well-being and discovering new issues related to quality of life.