The Coconut Day: A Poetic Interpretation of Seizure Experiences
This article presents a fraction of an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of people's seizure (ictal) experiences. In addition to undertaking individual analyses and across case analyses, a poetic interpretation (SZTO, FURMAN & LANGER, 2005) of participant's words was under...
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| description | This article presents a fraction of an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of people's seizure (ictal) experiences. In addition to undertaking individual analyses and across case analyses, a poetic interpretation (SZTO, FURMAN & LANGER, 2005) of participant's words was undertaken which focussed on bodily experiences and consciousness. The interpretations indicate participants' awareness of biological events unfolding; their abilities (or not) to interact with others; personal resignation to having the condition; and the effect epilepsy has on their lives. Although people are not always able to respond appropriately to events external to them during a seizure, having some conscious awareness allowed one man to act to save his life.
Findings from the study shed light onto subjective seizure experiences of consciousness. Collecting similar accounts could begin a corpus of data to inform research on ictal consciousness. The poetic interpretations below provide a porthole to a large vista of subjective seizure experiences, and could be considered both as research and clinical texts, being valuable to lay/professional carers and to the differential diagnosis of seizures.
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| spelling | doaj.art-990a6dc6a69b46c9937c7460035d626a2022-12-22T03:11:07ZdeuFQSForum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272013-05-011421576The Coconut Day: A Poetic Interpretation of Seizure ExperiencesValerie Anne Featherstone0Anna Sandfield1University of HuddersfieldUniversity of HullThis article presents a fraction of an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of people's seizure (ictal) experiences. In addition to undertaking individual analyses and across case analyses, a poetic interpretation (SZTO, FURMAN & LANGER, 2005) of participant's words was undertaken which focussed on bodily experiences and consciousness. The interpretations indicate participants' awareness of biological events unfolding; their abilities (or not) to interact with others; personal resignation to having the condition; and the effect epilepsy has on their lives. Although people are not always able to respond appropriately to events external to them during a seizure, having some conscious awareness allowed one man to act to save his life. Findings from the study shed light onto subjective seizure experiences of consciousness. Collecting similar accounts could begin a corpus of data to inform research on ictal consciousness. The poetic interpretations below provide a porthole to a large vista of subjective seizure experiences, and could be considered both as research and clinical texts, being valuable to lay/professional carers and to the differential diagnosis of seizures. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1302185http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1942epilepsyseizuresconsciousnessembodimentinterpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)poetic interpretations |
| spellingShingle | Valerie Anne Featherstone Anna Sandfield The Coconut Day: A Poetic Interpretation of Seizure Experiences Forum: Qualitative Social Research epilepsy seizures consciousness embodiment interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) poetic interpretations |
| title | The Coconut Day: A Poetic Interpretation of Seizure Experiences |
| title_full | The Coconut Day: A Poetic Interpretation of Seizure Experiences |
| title_fullStr | The Coconut Day: A Poetic Interpretation of Seizure Experiences |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Coconut Day: A Poetic Interpretation of Seizure Experiences |
| title_short | The Coconut Day: A Poetic Interpretation of Seizure Experiences |
| title_sort | coconut day a poetic interpretation of seizure experiences |
| topic | epilepsy seizures consciousness embodiment interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) poetic interpretations |
| url | http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1942 |
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