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Grief memoirs : cultural, supportive, and therapeutic significance / Katarzyna A. Małecka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Małecka, Katarzyna, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in literature and health humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grief.
- Autobiography--Psychological aspects.
- Autobiography.
- Bibliotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Katarzyna A. Małecka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Lodz, Poland. Dr. Małecka is the author of numerous publications on death and grief in literature. She has been awarded three international scholarships to conduct her research on loss and bereavement: the interdisciplinary research grant by the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna to study the bibliotherapeutic aspects of literature in work with grieving children; the Fulbright Senior Award Scholarship for her project on the use of modern bereavement memoirs in grief therapy; and the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship to study the grief witnessing, bibliotherapeutic, and educational aspects of grief memoirs. She is currently working on her new project exploring the bibliotherapeutic application of grief narratives in the clinical setting and their use in the education of future helping professionals.
- Contents:
- The grief memoir: meditations upon the genre
- Grief witnessing in research and grief memoirs
- Grief witnessing through grief memoirs: survey
- Bibliotherapy: existing research
- Bibliotherapy in practice: survey and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Małecka, Katarzyna. Grief memoirs
- ISBN:
- 9781003108870
- 1003108873
- 9781000892758
- 1000892751
- 9781000892789
- 1000892786
- Publisher Number:
- 40032212784
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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