@article{ref1,
title="A phenomenological investigation of the experience of not belonging",
journal="Journal of phenomenological psychology",
year="2006",
author="",
volume="37",
number="1",
pages="53-83",
abstract="This study employed the Duquesne method of phenomenology to explore eight participants' experiences of not belonging. These experiences began with a discomforting sense of difference that then developed into self-conscious, wary behavior. This experience was followed by attempts at interpersonal transformation whose success led to an episodic view of not belonging and whose failure led to a more dramatic, personalized, isolating, and permanent view of not belonging. Such a view was also accompanied by a profound transformation in how the participants experienced themselves, others, and their social environments. Among the most interesting findings in this research were the descriptions of isolated belonging--a pattern of relating involving many intepersonally distant relationships--and consistent, generalized not belonging--an experience where not belonging is the primary mode of interpersonal relation.",
language="",
issn="0047-2662",
doi="10.1163/156916206778150448",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916206778150448"
}