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A Heideggerian Hermeneutical Analysis of Survivors of Incest
Author(s) -
Kondora Lori L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1993.tb00747.x
Subject(s) - phenomenology (philosophy) , lived experience , psychology , hermeneutic phenomenology , interpretative phenomenological analysis , developmental psychology , psychoanalysis , qualitative research , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , anthropology
The phenomenological study described in this paper examined the lived experience of adult women survivors of childhood incest. Self‐identified incest survivors (N=5) participated in non‐structured, audiotaped interviews. Subsequent transcripts were analyzed by a team of researchers using Heideggerian phenomenology to identify common meanings and themes in the texts. The major findings of the study suggested two constitutive patterns of lived experience among incest survivors: “Remembering As a Coming of What Has Been” and “Care: Reconstituting a Sense of Me.”