Meaning reconstruction & the experience of loss / edited by Robert A. Neimeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neimeyer, Robert A., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology).

Meaning (Psychology).

Grief.

Bereavement--Psychological aspects.

Bereavement.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

xiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Meaning reconstruction and the experience of loss

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2001]

Summary:

Debunking the commonly held perception that bereavement consists of an invariant sequence of stages, Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss demonstrates that highly individual processes of "meaning making" are actually at the heart of grief dynamics. This groundbreaking volume exposes meaning reconstruction in response to loss as the central process in grieving. Authors stress the fundamental necessity for a healthy role of continued symbolic bonds as well as an appreciation of life-enhancing growth as one integrates the lessons of loss.

Contents:

ch. 1. Beyond decathexia : toward a new psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of mourning / George Hagman

ch. 2. Relearning the world : making and finding meanings / Thomas Attig

ch. 3. Meaning making in the dual process model of coping with bereavement / Margaret S. Stroebe and Henk Schut

ch. 4. The inner representation of the dead child in the psychic and social narratives of bereaved parents / Dennis Klass

ch. 5. Family construction of meaning / Janice Winchester Nadeau

ch. 6. The death of a child with a developmental disability / Elizabeth Moulton Milo

ch. 7. The tormented and the transformed : understanding responses to loss and trauma / Christopher G. Davis

ch. 8. Posttraumatic growth : the positive lessons of loss / Lawrence G. Calhoun and Richard G. Tedeschi

ch. 9. Spiritual resources following a partner's death from AIDS / T. Anne Richards

ch. 10. Positive outcomes of losing a loved one / Thomas T. Frantz, Megan M. Farrell, and Barbara C. Trolley

ch. 11. Shattered beliefs : reconstituting the self of the trauma counselor / Marla J. Arvay

ch. 12. Embracing their memory : the construction of accounts of loss and hope / John H. Harvey, Heather R. Carlson, Tamara M. Huff, and Melinda A. Green

ch. 13. Research as therapy : the power of narrative to effect change / Bronna D. Romanoff

ch. 14. The language of loss : grief therapy as a process of meaning reconstruction / Robert A. Neimeyer

ch. 15. Construing stress : a constructivist therapeutic approach to posttraumatic stress reactions / Kenneth W. Sewell and Amy M. Williams

ch. 16. Trauma, grief, and surviving childhood sexual abuse / Stephen J. Fleming and Sheri Kathleen Bélanger

ch. 17. Videography : re-storying the lives of clients facing terminal illness / Sandra A. Rigazio-DiGilio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1557987424

OCLC:

44712952