Kenny Gerard
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK BS16 1DD.
J Holist Nurs. 2011 Jun;29(2):148-56. doi: 10.1177/0898010110387931. Epub 2010 Dec 15.
This article seeks to explore how the experience of love and its expression might inform and guide reflection and inquiry into love. Despite the importance of love in our personal and professional lives, it remains a topic that has further scope for inquiry within nursing circles. The article takes as its catalyst an encounter that emerged out of a piece of research that was exploring individuals' experiences of becoming healers and the journey they undertook. One participant spoke deeply and profoundly of his experience of love, which generated for me a personal, experiential, and intellectual process of inquiry. The article seeks to try and create a synthesis between rational inquiry and subjective experience. It explores W. B. Yeats's notion of a gyre, a spiral, as an image and metaphor for integrating different conceptions and understandings of love. It seeks to illustrate how a more integrated understanding of love may open up spaces of inquiry that are more flexible, creative, and spontaneous.
本文旨在探讨爱之体验及其表达方式如何为关于爱的反思与探究提供信息并加以引导。尽管爱在我们的个人生活和职业生涯中至关重要，但在护理领域，它仍是一个有待进一步探究的话题。本文以一项探索个体成为治疗者的经历及其所经历旅程的研究中的一次邂逅为催化剂。一位参与者深入且深刻地讲述了他的爱情经历，这引发了我个人的、体验性的以及理智的探究过程。本文试图在理性探究与主观体验之间达成一种综合。它探讨了W. B. 叶芝关于“螺旋”（gyre）的概念，即一种螺旋形，将其作为整合对爱的不同概念和理解的一种意象及隐喻。它试图阐明，对爱形成更综合的理解如何能够开辟出更具灵活性、创造性和自发性的探究空间。
