The Phenomenology of Meditation for Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Violence Against Women April 14, 2006 Kathleen E. Kane
An existential-phenomenological methodology was utilized to investigate the experience of meditation for female survivors of intimate partner violence. Six coresearchers were taught a form of concentrative meditation and were asked to meditate daily and to attend a weekly group meditation for 6 weeks. Semistructured interviews were utilized to gather the data. The essence of the experience that...