“Shortly Afterwards I Was Practically Dead”—Temporal Experiences of Middle-Aged Individuals With Heart Disease: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Daniel Broschmann, Lisa Nebel, Juri Krivzov, Evelyn Kleinert, Laura Mohacsi, Timothy Le Butt, Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Geriatrics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Academie Gezondheid en Vitaliteit, HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, Department of General Practice, University Medical Center Göttingen, German Center for Cardiovascular Research

Qualitative Health Research

Published online on September 24, 2025

Abstract

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Changes in the experience of time have originally been described in mental disorders within the framework of the phenomenological psychopathology of the lived time. Both phenomenological and qualitative empirical studies have shown that physical illnesses,...