2012
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-11692012000200022
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Abstract: The consumption of crack can constitute in an inauthentic form of the existence that leads a person to live improperly the being-toward-death. Given this reality, this study aimed to comprehend the significance of death and dying for the user of crack and to unveil the meanings attributed to this significance. This qualitative study was conducted, based on the phenomenological method, with 12 crack users, in the therapeutic process, in a Psychosocial Care Center - Alcohol and Drugs (CAPSad), in the period from… Show more

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“…In addition half were working full-time. Despite the many differences between the participants in this study and the men in the Silva et al (2012) study, they both include “pondering over life” as a theme, along with unstable self, ambivalence, introspectiveness and attempts to perform normality (Thurang & Bengtsson Tops, 2013, p. 426-429). One meaning from the study of the woman in recovery in Sweden, included “dwelling in self-contempt” while seeking to live a life they perceived as normal.…”
Section: Toward a Human Science Approach: Both Person-centered And Glmentioning
confidence: 91%
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“…In addition half were working full-time. Despite the many differences between the participants in this study and the men in the Silva et al (2012) study, they both include “pondering over life” as a theme, along with unstable self, ambivalence, introspectiveness and attempts to perform normality (Thurang & Bengtsson Tops, 2013, p. 426-429). One meaning from the study of the woman in recovery in Sweden, included “dwelling in self-contempt” while seeking to live a life they perceived as normal.…”
Section: Toward a Human Science Approach: Both Person-centered And Glmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…A team of nurse researchers from Brazil (Silva, Fernando, & Monteiro, 2012) conducted an existential phenomenological study of young men in Teresina, Brazil, who at the time of the study were dependent on crack cocaine. They suggested that such a study was necessary for nurses because it afforded access to the world of the user, whose drug use breaks some connections as it makes other ones.…”
Section: Toward a Human Science Approach: Both Person-centered And Glmentioning
confidence: 99%
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