The article approaches Bossa Nova as an experience of resignification at the existentialand religious level, focusing primarily on song Chega de saudade (No more blues),by Tom Jobim and Vinicius Moraes. Opinions testimonies are listed, in orderto attest to centrality this for Brazilian Popular Music.Chega catalyzes aspirations, like a horizon happiness. constitutionand main features Bossanovist...

INTRODUCTION Existential suffering in patients with serious illness significantly impacts quality of life, yet it remains a challenge to define, assess, and manage adequately. Improving upon understanding and practice in the existential domain is a topic of interest for palliative care providers. METHODS As a quality improvement project, our palliative care team created an existential assessm...

PURPOSE This study examined a novel intervention, dignity therapy, designed to address psychosocial and existential distress among terminally ill patients. Dignity therapy invites patients to discuss issues that matter most or that they would most want remembered. Sessions are transcribed and edited, with a returned final version that they can bequeath to a friend or family member. The objectiv...

In Wild Rose (2015), the seventh novel by Canadian prairie author Sharon Butala, protagonist—young wife and aspiring homesteader Sophie Hippolyte—expresses profound anguish, rejection of upbringing religion, headstrong desire to remake herself on frontier southwestern Saskatchewan in mid-1880s. The marks a turn Butala’s fiction toward atheistic existential philosophy, progression from questioni...

Shame is related to several mental disorders. We assume that facets of shame, namely bodily, cognitive and existential shame, may occur in typical patterns in mental and personality disorders. An excessive level of shame may lead to psychopathological symptoms. However, a lack of shame may also lead to distress, for instance as it may facilitate violation of social norms and thus may promote in...