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Moving Within the Spiral: The Process of Surviving

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	Abstract

To uncover implicit and explicit meanings that are embedded in the experiences of adult survivors of sexual assault, the authors conducted interviews with 12 women survivors. Using Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology, they uncovered three relational themes and one overarching pattern from the data. "Breaking down" describes the violence that survivors experience, "making meaning" expresses the ways in which survivors incorporate the assault into the narratives of their lives, and "going beyond themselves" explicates what survivors do with their story, who they tell, and what they want to happen. Moving within the spiral: the process of surviving, the constitutive pattern, contains emerging themes, lived experiences, and the practices of participants.

First published on February 13, 2009, doi:10.1177/0886109909331702

Affilia 2009;24:152.

A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2009


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