Background: The description of women's experiences of childbirth improves our understandings of the nature of childbirth, women's suffering and pain during childbirth. Aim: This study aimed to explore women's experiences of pain during childbirth. Method: A qualitative study was conducted using a conventional content analysis method proposed by Graneheim and Lundman (2004). In-depth face to...
Some contemporary women can experience non-ordinary states of consciousness when childbearing. The purpose of this paper is to bring a 'transpersonal' frame to these non-ordinary states of consciousness (hereafter: NOSC). Transpersonal psychology is an interdisciplinary movement in Western science that studies 'religious', 'peak' or 'healing' experiences in different cultures and social...