1st Edition

Suffering Narratives of Older Adults A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care

By Mary Beth Morrissey Copyright 2015
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults , Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience. She draws upon the notion of maternal holding to develop an original construct of maternal affordances – the ground of possibility for human development,... Read more

Introduction  1. The Dialectics of Suffering and Maternal Care-Seeking in Serious Illness  2. The Narrative of Angelique: Maternal Affordances in Suffering  3. The Social Ecology of Suffering in Serious Illness: Loss of Maternal Foundations  4. Suffering and Care-Seeking as Moral Experience: The Movement Toward Self-Actualizing and Spiritual Well-Being  5. The Narrative of Camila: Enacting and Reenacting Cultural Meanings of Faith and Fidelity  6. Living in Community: The Gifts of Grapes and Maternal Grace  7. Seriously Ill Older Adult Men in Recovery: Maternal Care Facilities  8. A Call for Broader Social Care Provision: A Maternal Turn in Ethics of Care

Biography

Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey, PhD, MPH, JD, is a Fellow of the Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center, and the Program Director of the Post-Masters Healthcare Management Certificate Program in Public Health, Palliative Care and Long-Term Care, Fordham Schools of Business, New York, USA.