Department of HEALTH CARE SCIENCES
Campus Ersta
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Professor (BA, MA, PhD) |
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Telephone: |
+46 (0)8-555 050 22 |
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+46 (0)8-555 050 60 |
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Address: |
Ersta Sköndal University College |
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Visiting address: |
Stigbergsgatan 30 |
Main Areas of Research Interest
- Psychosomatic theory from a philosophical perspective
- Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, especially "the lived body"
- Existential aspects of care and rehabilitation of persons with chronic pain
- The aging body and identity
My research is concerned mainly with issues surrounding the theoretical understanding of psychosomatic conditions (mind – body problem) and how the care, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with complicated psychosomatic symptoms and diseases can be improved. My doctoral dissertation from 1999 (published as well in book form) is a systematized philosophical analysis of psychosomatic theories, including a presentation of my own alternative phenomenological theory of psychosomatics inspired by the work of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
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Some Recent Publications
Bullington, J.(2004) Den objektiva kroppen och den levda kroppen i behandlingsrummet, i S. Olin och F. Svenaeus (red) Människan möter Medicin. Stockholm: Carlssons förlag. ss 49-68.
Bullington, J. (2004) Merleau-Pontys fenomenologi och en ”alternativ” syn på kroppen, i M. Eklöf (red) Perspektiv på komplementär medicin: Medicinsk pluralism i mångvetenskaplig belysning, Lund: Studentlitteratur. ss. 101-115.
Bullington, J., Nordemar, K., Nordemar, K., Sjöström-Flanagan, C. (2004) Meaning out of Chaos: a way to understand chronic pain, Neuropathic Pain Review Series, Issue 2 (2004) pp. 22-23.
Bullington, J., Sjöström-Flanagan, C., Nordemar, K., Nordemar, K., (2005) From pain through chaos towards new meaning: two case studies, The Arts in Psychotherapy, 32/14, pp. 261-274.
Bullington, J. (2006) “Body and Self: A Phenomenological study on the aging body and identity, Medical Humanities, 2006, vol. 32: 25 – 31.
Bullington, J. (2007) Psykosomatik: om kropp, själ och meningsskapande, Lund: Studentlitteratur. 204 ss.
Lundberg M, Styf J, Bullington J. (2007). Experiences of moving with persistent pain - A qualitative study from a patient perspective. Physiother Theory Pract. 2007 Jul; 23(4):199-209.
Bullington, J. (2009) Embodiment and chronic pain: implications for rehabilitation practice, Health Care Analysis, published on-line 29 january, 2009. DOI 10.10728-008-0109-5.
Bullington, J. (2009) Being body: the dignity of human embodiment, I Lennart Nordenfelt (red.) Dignity in Care for Older People, Blackwell, pp 54-76
Levy Berg, A., Sandahl, C., Bullington J. (2010) "Patients" perspective of change processes in affect-focused body psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder, Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, Vol 5, Nr. 2, august 2010, 151-169.
Bullington, J. (2010) "Vad är det som läker? Existentiella aspekter på hälsa och sjukdom", i G. Silfverberg (red). Visst längtar jag fortfarande efter något. Om etik och andlighet i vård, psykoterapi och musik, Ersta Sköndal högskola.
Bullington, J.(2011) Hälsa ur ett psykosomatiskt perspektiv, i H. Sandmark (red.) Perspektiv på kvinnorshälsa i arbetslivet, Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Lundberg, M., Hagberg, K. & Bullington, J. (2011) My prosthesis as part of me: a qualitative analysis of living with an osseointegrated prosthetic limb, Prosthetics & Orthotics International.
