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How do people talk decades later about their crisis that we call psychosis? : A qualitative study of the personal meaning-making process
2019
Psychosis refers to a severe mental state that often significantly affects the individual’s life course. However, it remains unclear how people with the lived experiences themselves view these phenomena, as part of their life story. In order to evaluate this personal meaning-making process, we conducted in-depth life-story interviews with 20 people who had been diagnosed with non-affective psychosis 10 to 23 years previously in one catchment area. 35% of them were still receiving mental health treatment, and 55% of them were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Only a minority named their experiences as psychosis. On the basis of narrative analysis, two types of stories appeared to encompass how m…
Tiedonarkeologisia pohdintoja Viipurin vuoden 1918 haudatuista muistoista
2021
The subject of the article is the ‘memory war’ over the memory of the Civil War of 1918 in Vyborg, and the displaced Karelians’ experience in the time of diaspora. Until the wars of 1939–1945 the culture of remembrance of the Civil War was divided in Vyborg and in Finland and many truths of the war were maintained in the Red’s and White’s own groups. The article details how the dichotomous history culture of Civil War memories has slowly transformed into a diversified and critical analysis over the past one hundred years. The qualitative material used in the article consists of memory data written by displaced Karelians held in Finnish archives. The article is a knowledge-archaeological ana…
Kaltoinkohtelun muistot lapsuudesta : muistitietotutkimus vaikuttamassa yhteiskuntaan
2022
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Opposite Ends: widows' narratives of contemporary late life
2020
The life course perspective frames this study of contemporary late life. Thematic narrative analysis is employed to analyse the stories of 16 Finnish widows aged 79–89 years (Moving in Old Age: Transitions in Housing and Care research project) in order to explore the experiences related to growing old. The results indicate two kinds of narratives: nostalgic reminiscences about a happy past are typical of the retiring to solitude story, characterised by experiences of life nearing its end and of letting go; and those inclined towards the keeping up narrative are still seeking new experiences and playing active roles in everyday life. Both kinds of stories encompass well-being, in spite of…
The relevance of biographic narratives for social workers’ professional memory, reflexivity and identity
2020
The present article is about the use of biographic methods and oral history, and its contribution to developing processes of critical reflection and reflexivity. It is based on a set of oral data collected from Portuguese social workers who played an active role in the revolutionary phase during the transition from dictatorship to democracy in Portugal (following the 25th April 1974 military coup). The article explores how the use of biographic methods (integrated within a historical methodological framework), other than simply producing accounts of past experiences, allowed interviewees to re-capture, re-interpret and re-signify their own experiences in the light of changing professional …
Landscapes of loss and destruction: : Sámi elders’ childhood memories of the second world war
2019
The so-called Lapland War between Finland and Germany at the end of the Second World War led to a mass-scale destruction of Lapland. Both local Finnish residents and the indigenous Sámi groups lost their homes, and their livelihoods suffered in many ways. The narratives of these deeply traumatic experiences have long been neglected and suppressed in Finland and have been studied only recently by academics and acknowledged in public. In this text, we analyze the interviews with four elders of one Sámi village, Vuotso. We explore their memories, from a child’s perspective, scrutinizing the narration as a multilayered affective process that involves sensual and embodied dimensions of memory. ©…
“Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur” : positioning analysis of written narratives
2021
PurposeThe negative stereotypes concerning late-career workers are found to prevail and lead to negative circulation of narratives and actions between individuals and societies. Using the context of late-career entrepreneurs, the paper aims to find an alternative and a more positive narrative concerning late-career work by focusing on entrepreneurs and the narrative positioning related to them.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a narrative-positioning analysis, cycling through three levels of analysis and then returning to level two, in order to study our sample of seven narratives written by Finnish late-career entrepreneurs. The authors present in detail one story-telling narrati…
Kirjoittajan minä-ilmaisujen hyödyntäminen osana hoitoprosessia : vähänpuheisen pojan ainekirjoitusten avulla luodaan ymmärrystä hänelle itselle ja a…
2017
Tämä pro gradu -tutkielma on tapaustutkimus, jossa tarkastellaan lastensuojelusijaishuollon ja psykiatrian asiakkaana olevan pojan ainekirjoituksissa ilmenevien minä-ilmaisujen avulla, mitä ja miten hän kertoo itsestään ja suhteistaan toisiin. Pro gradu -tutkielmassa pyrittiin selvittämään, diskurssianalyyttisiä keinoja hyödyntäen, millaisia voimavaroja kirjoittaja teksteissään hänestä itsestään tuottaa sekä millä tavalla kirjoittaja korvaa kirjoituksillaan kyvyttömyyttään puhua ja mitä merkityksiä ainekirjoituksista, joissa kirjoittaja kuvaa itseään tai omaa toimintaansa tulee esiin. Keskeisimmät tutkimustulokset olivat, tarinallinen metafora, jonka avulla poika saattoi kirjoittaa oman elä…