Post by violet on Sept 24, 2014 10:30:55 GMT -6
I am posting here as we still need more participants for our diary study. I will paste up the full ad as it has all the relevant contact details on it. I will also let you know that our mental health and well-being studied is now written up and has been sent off for peer review and hopefully publishing, if anyone has any enquiries about the study please contact Dr Helen Clegg at the email address below
A diary-interview study exploring the experiences of phantom shifts and mental shifts in the therian community.
Hello,
We are a group of researchers and founder members of the Therianthropy Research Group. We are interested in understanding therianthropy and researching it using a non-judgemental perspective. Our approach is to normalise not pathologise experience. Recently some of the members conducted a study to find out about the identity of therians. One of the things that this highlighted was the experiences of phantom shifts and mental shifts that corresponded to the participants’ theriotype(s). Since these experiences appear to be relatively common within the therian community we believe that further exploration of these experiences will provide us with a greater understanding of therianthropy. To clarify what we mean by these types of shifts the following are definitions; by phantom shifts we mean when a therian experiences a non-human body part superimposed on his or her body, similar to the feeling amputees report whom have lost a limb. Common phantom limbs include tails, wings and ears. By mental shifts we mean a change in mindset towards one's theriotype, which can vary in intensity and duration.
To research phantom shifts and mental shifts we would like therians who are 18 years or older and who experience one or both of these phenomena to complete a diary for one month. We will then invite you to be interviewed either face-to-face, online or by phone to clarify aspects of your diary and to help us further understand your experiences. However should you only wish to complete the diary but not be interviewed then we would still welcome your participation. We are looking for therians who do not deliberately induce such shifts but rather they naturally occur or are triggered by non-deliberate means.
You will be supported throughout the study by contact with one of the research team, who is also a member of the therianthropy research group. Previous research using diaries has found that many people enjoy the experience of completing the diary and come to a better understanding of the experiences they are writing about. At the end of the study we plan to publish our research and make it accessible to the therian community. This project has been approved by The University of Northampton’s ethics committee.
We would welcome your participation in this study.
If you would are interested in participating in this study or have any other queries please contact Dr Helen Clegg at helen.clegg@northampton.ac.uk Contacting Helen about the study does not commit you to participating.
If you wish to find out more about the Therianthropy Research Group then go to www.therianthropyresearchgroup.org/
A diary-interview study exploring the experiences of phantom shifts and mental shifts in the therian community.
Hello,
We are a group of researchers and founder members of the Therianthropy Research Group. We are interested in understanding therianthropy and researching it using a non-judgemental perspective. Our approach is to normalise not pathologise experience. Recently some of the members conducted a study to find out about the identity of therians. One of the things that this highlighted was the experiences of phantom shifts and mental shifts that corresponded to the participants’ theriotype(s). Since these experiences appear to be relatively common within the therian community we believe that further exploration of these experiences will provide us with a greater understanding of therianthropy. To clarify what we mean by these types of shifts the following are definitions; by phantom shifts we mean when a therian experiences a non-human body part superimposed on his or her body, similar to the feeling amputees report whom have lost a limb. Common phantom limbs include tails, wings and ears. By mental shifts we mean a change in mindset towards one's theriotype, which can vary in intensity and duration.
To research phantom shifts and mental shifts we would like therians who are 18 years or older and who experience one or both of these phenomena to complete a diary for one month. We will then invite you to be interviewed either face-to-face, online or by phone to clarify aspects of your diary and to help us further understand your experiences. However should you only wish to complete the diary but not be interviewed then we would still welcome your participation. We are looking for therians who do not deliberately induce such shifts but rather they naturally occur or are triggered by non-deliberate means.
You will be supported throughout the study by contact with one of the research team, who is also a member of the therianthropy research group. Previous research using diaries has found that many people enjoy the experience of completing the diary and come to a better understanding of the experiences they are writing about. At the end of the study we plan to publish our research and make it accessible to the therian community. This project has been approved by The University of Northampton’s ethics committee.
We would welcome your participation in this study.
If you would are interested in participating in this study or have any other queries please contact Dr Helen Clegg at helen.clegg@northampton.ac.uk Contacting Helen about the study does not commit you to participating.
If you wish to find out more about the Therianthropy Research Group then go to www.therianthropyresearchgroup.org/