Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på forfatter "Ramvi, Ellen"
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A Psychoanalytic Approach to Fieldwork
Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-12)This article focuses on what both psychoanalysis and anthropology have in common: the emphasis on the researcher’s own experience. An ethnographic fieldwork will be used to illustrate how a psychoanalytical approach unfolds ... -
I am only a nurse: a biographical narrative study of a nurse’s self-understanding and its implication for practice
Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article, 2015-04)Background: The personal is a vital part of professional nursing practice. From a psycho-social perspective, nurses produce and reproduce conceptions of the Self through experience. A literature search on nurses’ self ... -
Out of control : A teacher's account
Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-12)This paper draws on data collected from my recent exploration of how teachers become competent in the area of relationships. In an interview, a student teacher, Kristin, voiced the challenges she faced: 'I think it is ... -
Passing the Buck, or Thinking about Experience? Conditions for Professional Development among Teachers in a Norwegian Middle School
Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02)This paper uses psychoanalytic ideas to explore obstacles and conditions for learning from experience among teachers. In specific, this is about consequences of failure in relationships. A particular situation that happened ... -
Psychosocial and Symbolic Dimensions of the Breast Explored through a Visual Matrix
Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga; Ramvi, Ellen; Froggett, Lynn; Hellstrand, Ingvil Førland; Manley, Julian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08)This article explores knowledge about the breast in lived experience, addressing a gap in empirical research on a highly gendered cultural trope and embodied organ. We present findings from a study that used a free-associative ... -
Silence about encounters with dying among healthcare professionals in a society that ‘de-tabooises’ death
Ramvi, Ellen; Gripsrud, Birgitta Haga (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Empirical studies on healthcare personnel indicate that professionals’ experiences with dying and death become silenced and unutterable within the healthcare service. Aim: To explore and interpret silence ... -
The risk of entering relationships: experiences from a Norwegian hospital.
Ramvi, Ellen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-09)This article analyses how nursing students being trained in a Norwegian hospital interact and communicate with their patients – a task that seems to be one of the hardest of all for the students. Based on data from a ...