ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2020
The Value of Dignity in Prison: A Qualitative Study with Life Convicts.
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- The Ethical and Psychosocial Dimensions of Palliative Care in Prison : A Scoping Review.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Review
- Dignity in Medicine: Definition, Assessment and Therapy.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Generalized Resistance Deficits in inmates with hypertension: missing resources that limit health.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2024Article
- New Psychological Perspectives on Death and Dying-Between Normality and the COVID-19 Emergency.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Hospital Restraints: Safe or Dangerous? A Case of Hospital Death Due to Asphyxia from the Use of Mechanical Restraints.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Mental Health in Prison: Integrating the Perspectives of Prison Staff.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Hardships in Italian Prisons During the COVID-19 Emergency: The Experience of Healthcare Personnel.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The COVID-19 Disappeared: From Traumatic to Ambiguous Loss and the Role of the Internet for the Bereaved in Italy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Psychology Students' Perceptions of COVID-19 in a Death Education Course.Frontiers in public healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThis research is based on the perspective of dignity according to Chochinov; thus, the life imprisonment of detainees is assimilated to a severe disease.
methodsTen male prisoners were interviewed trough Chochinov's Dignity Therapy, and the results were analysed using thematic analysis.
resultsTwo areas of thematic prevalence emerged, namely, value of freedom, self-consciousness and education and their failure in jail, and life sentence as annihilation of life meaning and of the values of generativity and family.
conclusionsLife imprisonment has been described in its negativity by several respondents as a punishment worse than the death penalty. It has been compared to death itself, to a terminal illness, to torture and to a pain that grows over the years, with the awareness that despite the passing of time, you will not have the opportunity to return to your loved one and to a free life. In fact, prisoners live out their condition within a space in which any value that gives meaning to life risks being destroyed.
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