Personal Grief Rituals

Creating Unique Expressions of Loss and Meaningful Acts of Mourning in Clinical or Private Settings
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8153-8412-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Personal Grief Rituals presents a new model for how bereaved individuals can create unique expressions of mourning that are tailored to their psychological needs and grounded in memories and emotions specific to the relationship they lost.

This book examines cultures across the world and throughout history to shed light on how humanity has always turned to grief rituals and how custom can stifle one’s pursuit of healthy and meaningful mourning. Contemporary psychological research, most notably attachment theory, provides an in-depth understanding of how each individual’s subjective experience of loss varies and why complicated bereavement may emerge. Richly detailed psychotherapy case studies exemplify innovative strategies for designing personal grief rituals. Where one person may visit an old haunt to express sorrow, another might use symbols to strengthen their connection to the deceased, and still another could cast aside vestiges of the past.

Personal Grief Rituals is an excellent resource for professionals, students studying the psychology of loss, or anyone hoping to carve a new path through their own grief and mourning.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Paul M.

Martin, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Cultural Grief Rituals and the Mourning Process: An Anthropological Perspective 2. Absence-and-Presence: The Subjective Experience of Loss, Grief, and Mourning 3. Designing Personal Grief Rituals 4. Confirming Absence: Rituals that Facilitate Acceptance of Loss 5. Expressing Grief: Rituals that Expand and Limit Emotional Experiences of Loss 6. Continuing Bonds: Rituals that Create an Enduring Connection 7. Moving Forward: Rituals that Embrace New Life

Über Autor(innen)

Paul M. Martin is a licensed clinical psychologist, the assistant director of The Center for Grief Recovery, and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University. He specializes in psychotherapy for those struggling with complicated bereavement and regularly provides continuing education workshops and individual consultation for professionals.