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Steinberg, Abby D. "Personal narratives : collective grief, the echoes of a disaster." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112612.
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The purpose of this thesis is to locate the experience of individuals in the shared experience of a cultural community, to reveal a collective experience. Further, this thesis aspires to demonstrate that the experience of trauma is transmitted, often silently, intergenerationally. This is an attempt to define a community of distant survivors, and to locate the echoes of the voice of trauma hidden in the narratives of its members. The study explores the events of the December 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami. At the moment of the tsunami disaster all the participants in this study, Indonesian International Students, were studying in Montreal Canada. The impetus behind this qualitative inquiry into the essential experience of trauma is the desire to bring the experience of distant survivors to the foreground; to recognize vicarious victims by listening for echoes in their narratives. The aim of this thesis is to (1) locate personal narratives in the context of collective grief, (2) detect the re-creation of that grief in subsequent generations. This project has been undertaken with the hope of determining ever more effective social work practices for today's survivors, and of sparking interest in trauma research for tomorrow's victims.
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Christensen, Marsha A. "Women losing women narratives of grief over same-sex partner death /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1597613711&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Carusi, Dawn L. "Narratives of Orphaned Adults: Journey to Restoration." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1157635067.
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Kirkpatrick, D. "Grief and loss : living with the presence of absence : a practice based study of personal grief narratives and participatory projects." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2017. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/29973/.
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The thesis develops work started on the MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking. It addresses the question - Can personal grief narratives explored through contemporary arts practice,auto-ethnographic writing, and the participatory performative act of making and being in specific places result in access into, the potentially, restorative space of mourning; moving between what continues to exist and what is missing in the physical world? This troubles at the Western societal idea of getting over grief and presents an alternative model of walking with and alongside loss as well as providing opportunities for conversations and ‘metalogues’, following Bateson (1972). An investigation follows, through a phenonmenological methodology of repetition, into the functions of articulating loss and absence through stories in exploring personal grief narratives, through contemporary arts practice and the participatory creative enacting of rituals in specific places which involve the interweaving of people, objects, place and story, so as to externalize emotion through creative activity to match the void of absence. Testing Foucault’s (1989: 208) notion that “a work of art opens a void,” an opportunity to question without always providing reconciliation or answers. Through an interwoven exploration of theory and practice utilising Law’s (2004) ‘method assemblage’ of presence, manifest absence and Otherness, the practice element creates both the representational and allegorical; objects and gifted objects (forms of presence), documentation of performance/ritual, some orientated around specific external sites thus allowing an examination of loss of place as well as loss of people, (forms of manifest absence) and one’s response to and ongoing relationship with the presence of absence as ways of exploring grief and loss (what is hidden or Other,). The participatory projects and interviews with 7 artists (across artistic disciplines) enable conversations and sharing of understandings of loss. They provide multiple perspectives,viewpoints, and voices for the thesis. New knowledge is formed in the methodological and iterative dance between practice,reading and writing. The presence of absence becomes, to borrow a musical term, an ostinato through the repetition, variation and development of practice. Meaning is re-interpreted and transformed through evocation and noticing, allowing an examination of the pain ofgrief and loss. These combinations model new possibilities for enabling others by offering ideas and choices of how we might live with the presence of absence. The thesis shows the power of metaphor and story to alter the self, give back a sense of choice and control and find equivalence to the intensity of grief. Through creating objects and rituals, writing and sexual encounter, through the examples of other artists’ practice and the sharing of extended conversations multiple layers of meaning are revealed, how they work in relation to what continues to exist and what is missing in the physical world.
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De, Vries Chrissie. "Narratives of a family living with HIV/AIDS and a researcher's alternative story /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1798.
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Árnason, Arnar. "'Feel the pain' : death, grief and bereavement counselling in the North East of England." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1110/.
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This thesis is about death, grief and bereavement counselling in the North East of England. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of three years. I have three main objectives in this thesis. Arguing that the anthropology of death has neglected grief, I seek to describe and explain how people in the North East of England experience grief; how they make sense of the death of their loved ones, and their own reactions to those deaths. Working with interviews with bereaved people and drawing upon work in narrative analysis about the importance of stories in how we think, interact and relate to other people, I focus especially on the stories that bereaved people tell in their grief. I seek to illuminate, too, how grief is managed in the North East. In particular, I focus on bereavement counselling which has, I suggest, assumed something of an authority over how people should grieve. Seeking inspiration from the anthropolo gy of emotion and the Foucauldian notions of discourse and 'technologies of the self', I examine how grief is constituted in bereavement counselling both in training and practice. Finally, I compare how bereaved people experience grief with the construction of grief in bereavement counselling. In bereavement counselling the focus is upon the emotions the bereaved is experiencing in the present; grief is understood as an emotion that has its origin and location inside the individual mourner now. For bereaved people, grief is a part of their ongoing relationships and interactions with their loved ones, and other people around them, and as such it is a feature of the history of those relationships and interactions. The difference between the experiences of the bereaved and the workings of bereavement counselling IS explained by placing the latter in the context of modem govemmentality.
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Paley, Nicole. "Partners in grief : couples' narratives of the transition from pediatric paliative care into bereavement." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/894.
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A deep interest in how relationships, specifically romantic partnerships, cope with
and survive tragedies, guides this research. My research question was: What are the
narratives of intact bereaved couples whose children have died after receiving palliative care
for a life-limiting illness? Five couples were interviewed who had lost their children ranging
in age from 1-14 years of age. This loss occurred between 2 to 9 years previous to this study.
The purpose of this narrative research study was to better understand the ways in
which intact marital partners/couples coped together with the stress and grief involved in
having a child with a life-limiting condition and then having that child die after receiving
palliative care. A secondary aim was to bring forth their voices through their narratives as a
means to address the stigmatization and isolation often experienced by those who are
bereaved, especially those who have lost a child. This project informs professionals who are
working with couples undergoing the struggle of a child's critical illness or who are working
with bereaved couples.
Each couple's narrative account was written in story format. In addition to the rich
information gained from reading the holistic stories, 5 themes emerged through a categorical
content analysis which were: 1) the last thing you worry about are issues about us, 2)
accommodating one another's coping, 3) recognizing sources of support and limitations, 4)
two souls against the world, and 5) we have a common bond : lessons and legacy of the child.
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McDonald-Kenworthy, Nancy Ann. "How To Be A Widow: Performing Identity in Grief Narratives of an Online Community." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325091105.
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Anderson, Catherine Mary. "Balm for the Wound? Narratives and Spiritual Practice from L'Arche." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2016. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/b8248016262d8851c2f301e759d450a13396d187ac2b93917dfbb7353c63a450/2516583/ANDERSON_2016_THESIS.pdf.
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Building on previous research on people living with an intellectual disability, this study mainly focuses on practices employed in L’Arche communities. In particular, it investigates the manner in which the community provides a ‘balm’ for the metaphorical ‘wound’ experienced by persons living with intellectual disability. The study employs a practical-narrative theological methodology in which pastoral theology, pastoral care and spirituality are considered central components. Together with this, Lee’s appropriation of Aristotle’s three ways of knowing is essential parts of the methodology: praxis represents an important aspect of L’Arche. Further, the author introduces an expression of praxis, technē as artwork, for this thesis.
Theology of disability is part of the methodology. However this is not of primary concern. Rather than concentrate on, for example, a history of disability, this author considers life experience and how persons living with a disability contribute to and enrich the lives of other persons. The Christian theme of death and new life flows through the thesis. This is a hallmark of L’Arche yet the author justifies how this crosses the boundaries of religions and cultures in L’Arche. A focal point considers the profound grief of a woman living with an intellectual disability and her journey from an institution to L’Arche Daybreak (Toronto).
Further, the reader is introduced to a seven-step Christopraxis welcome response by Daybreak L’Arche community to this grieving woman. A second major study in the thesis is the attention to the artwork of persons living with an intellectual disability, which thematically is in sharp contrast to the study of grief.
The research findings are: Christopraxis is a way of knowing or understanding the identity of L’Arche Daybreak. The artwork of persons living with an intellectual disability represents a way of knowing or understanding differently. This articulates with the ‘viewer’ of this art, who knows/understands differently through contemplating this art.
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Merrill, Mark Reed. "Where We Belong: A Memoir." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/393.
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Where We Belong is more than a memoir. It is a love story about the untimely death of the oldest of five daughters born to a prominent New Haven, Connecticut family. It is also a tale of hubris, rage and frustration, a Greek tragedy about a man's life as re-examined through the lens of the two weeks his wife spent dying, a tale in which chronic illness and good intentions ensure the death of a loving wife, artist and mother. The journey on which her husband takes the reader explores a health care system oblivious to her plight, her family's unwitting complicity and a 12-step mythology that unfolds while he, her six weeping children and her aging mother helplessly look on. The author endures an agony that dwarfs incentives to lie, learning that people lie out of fear, and genuine grief supplants fear with the stark reality of what we fear most: death. Where We Belong gives voice to the internal dialogue the author encounters when reexamining not just memories, but the accoutrements of memory, as well. It is a voice that addresses his own grandiosity, sentimentalism and self-pity in the face of his wife's death, in addition to those details, circumstances and impressions that speak to the arrogance he brought to the task of being all he thought she and her six children needed him to be. He concludes the task was well beyond him, a realization evoked by the gut wrenching decision to literally "pull the plug" on this heartbreaking tale of reconstituted hope and great promise reduced to rubble by chronic illness, alcoholism, drug addiction and death. Born is the lesson that when we grieve, we are free to be ourselves. When we are free to be ourselves, we are free to love again.
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Cooley, Susan R. "In their own words : an analysis of personal narratives from fathers' perspectives on the death of a child /." Diss., This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-160724/.
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Bender, Jennifer R. "Widow Narratives on Film and in Memoirs: Exploring Formula Stories of Grief and Loss of Older Women After the Death of a Spouse." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7744.
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This dissertation analyzes narratives (written and mediated) about widows’ post-loss experiences—specifically the ways in which these women embody and adjust/adhere to their post-loss widow identities—and whether or not the canonical/formula stories about widows reflect current experiences of widowhood. I look at older widowed women—both those in well-read widow memoirs and also in media portrayals of widows on film. The canonical view of widows as not attractive, not useful, and not interesting needs to be reexamined in light of changing ideas about gender roles and increased longevity. Surely older women have experiences, desires, and goals that encompass more than being socially invisible and caring for grandchildren. Given that 80% of women outlive their husbands (Mastekaasa, 1994; Peters & Liefbroer, 1997) and are an understudied and often overlooked population (Lopata, 1996), this heartfelt research is important.
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Manda, Charles Bester. "Re-Authroing narratives of trauma survivors in kwazulu-natal spiritual perspective." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40211.
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In his thesis, Re-authoring life narratives of trauma survivors in KwaZulu-Natal: Spiritual perspective, the researcher investigates a holistic understanding of the effects of trauma on surviving individuals and communities historically affected by political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Traditionally, the exploration of the impact of trauma on survivors in South Africa has been focused mainly on the bio-psycho-social aspects. The Bio-psycho-social approach recognises that trauma affects people on several dimensions- biological, social and psychological. However, Nevid (et al 2006:19) and Kaminer (et al 2012) acknowledge that these bio-psychosocial factors are incomplete for us to understand the effects of trauma on the individual and call for consideration of all possible pathways and account for multiple factors, influences, and interactions.
Using qualitative and narrative approach, personal life narratives were listened to with the aim of looking in depth at the effects of traumatic experiences on the research participants, and specifically investigate whether, and how trauma affected their spirituality. The findings show that the research participants sustained psychological, moral and spiritual injuries during and after traumatic experiences. The results concur with Buckenham’s (1999:7-8) argument that trauma wreaks its toll in the life of a person emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, in our relationships with ourselves, others and with God. The study also established that regardless of religious affiliation, research participants turned to spiritual resources for answers, healing and recovery in traumatic situations.
Therefore, the study recommends the integration of the spiritual perspective to reach a holistic model of understanding and treating traumatized individuals and communities. Although the study is localised in the South African context, the results have a much wider relevance in understanding the role of ‘posttraumatic spirituality’ in the re-authoring of life narratives shattered by trauma.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Forsberg, Anette. "Sorgens avtryck : Erfarenheter av medverkan som sörjande i journalistik om brott och olyckor." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-119104.
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The aim of the thesis is to investigate the experiences of mourners of participating in news reports about grief in connection with crime and accidents. There are two overarching research questions. How do the bereaved experience their encounters with, and treatment by, journalists - what do they think of journalists’ motives, strategies, methods and ethics? How do the bereaved use journalism, i.e. what are their motives and strategies for participation, and how do they perceive their relations with journalists and the consequences of having been interviewed? The theoretical underpinnings are provided by scholarship on source relations, (encounters with and negotiations between journalists and news sources), news constructions (narrative components and patterns in grief journalism) and journalistic ethics, with a particular focus on an ethics of proximity, i.e. the ethical dimensions of people’s relations and encounters. The empirical material is comprised of qualitative interviews with 22 respondents who featured, in their capacity as mourners, in Swedish news reports of deaths connected with crime and accidents. A strategic sample was made with the aim of attaining as much variation as possible among respondents above all in their relationship to the deceased and cause of death, but also in terms of the attention given to the event in the media, the number of contacts with journalists, and how contact was made. The perception of the respondents is that journalists wanted to talk to them because the event had news value and was of general interest. In dramatic cases, the victim’s next of kin, in particular, felt that journalists also had commercial motives. As the respondents see it, the strategies used by journalists can involve trying to persuade the bereaved to participate, and steering them so that the news interview and text can be shaped in accordance with established narratives of grief journalism. Some respondents said journalists had shown them respect, while others felt they had been treated with a lack of consideration. The findings are ambivalent in that journalists’ methods were experienced positively by some respondents and negatively by others. Involvement in news reporting can offer redress, giving respondents a chance to pay tribute to the deceased. It can also provide comfort, as it can be incorporated into the mourning process and make it possible to share one’s grief both with people one knows and with strangers. The study also found that respondents have strategies of their own. In their dealings with journalists, they can negotiate for control by insisting on reading the text before publication or favouring journalists they perceive as more sympathetic and resisting those they dislike. Respondents’ relations with and perceptions of journalists can be conflictual or consensual, and characterized by a passive or active attitude. Journalists can be seen as allies and potential assets, or as enemies and a source of insecurity. If the death was dramatic and attracted considerable media attention, relations become more conflictual, with respondents who feel cornered liable to ‘attack’ journalists. This can be triggered by shock. However, shock can also numb close relatives emotionally, making them indifferent and their attitude one of passive acceptance.
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Silva, Gezenira Rodrigues da. "O luto materno em narrativas de vida e de morte: uma abordagem sociolÃgico-discursiva da perda." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=18491.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorA presente tese à fruto do trabalho de pesquisas com narrativas de vida de mÃes que passaram pela experiÃncia do luto, provocado pela morte violenta do filho. Este estudo, de natureza pluridisciplinar, busca estabelecer um diÃlogo entre diferentes Ãreas das ciÃncias humanas, tais como: a linguÃstica, a sociologia e a psicologia, em torno da anÃlise do objeto: discurso do luto. De um lado, sÃo convocadas bases linguÃsticas e discursivas, atravÃs das quais sÃo postas à luz a capacidade dos enunciados em expressarem de forma linguisticamente particular o discurso da dor e do luto. Do outro, sublinham-se as ancoragens sociolÃgicas e psicolÃgicas, que pÃem em evidÃncia o contexto e as relaÃÃes sociais mediante a morte. Nosso objetivo geral foi caracterizar o discurso do luto materno, a partir de narrativas de mÃes que relatam a perda inesperada e violenta de um filho e suas consequÃncias. Nosso questionamento central foi o de como o discurso do luto materno particulariza-se em relaÃÃo aos demais textos narrativos autobiogrÃficos, ao levarmos em contas os aspectos afetivo-sociais e narrativo-discursivos. Servimo-nos de diferentes concepÃÃes teÃrico-metodolÃgicas como ferramentas de anÃlise. Adotamos uma pesquisa de carÃter explicativo, interpretativo, qualitativo, etnossociolÃgico, guiada pelo mÃtodo autobiogrÃfico, com dados coletados atravÃs da tÃcnica da entrevista narrativa. Utilizamos em nossas anÃlises dois blocos de categorias: caracterizaÃÃo sÃcio-afetiva, com categorias criadas a partir da interpretaÃÃo do corpus e dos estudos de Bowlby (1997); e caracterizaÃÃo narrativo-discursiva, com categorias baseadas principalmente nos estudos de Maia-Vasconcelos (2003; 2005) e de Labov (1972; 1997). Nosso estudo mostrou que narrativas de vida de mÃes, cujos filhos foram vÃtimas de homicÃdio, apresentam especificaÃÃes no que diz respeito à sequencialidade, à temporalidade, ao uso de princÃpios de estruturaÃÃo e à elaboraÃÃo semÃntico-discursiva. Percebemos que estes fatores sÃo resultantes do teor emocional e afetivo, que compÃem o tema deste tipo de discurso. Discursos narrativos autobiogrÃficos com a temÃtica voltada para o luto, provocado pela morte violenta de um filho, apresentam caracterÃsticas que o diferenciam dos demais gÃneros narrativos autobiogrÃficos, principalmente, no que diz respeito ao posicionamento do sujeito e à estruturaÃÃo do discurso em si. AlÃm disso, concluÃmos que as narrativas estudadas refletem um discurso coletivo de mÃes que expressam a dor pela perda de um filho. Hà uma interligaÃÃo da narrativa do luto individual com as demais narrativas advindas de contextos e vivÃncias semelhantes.
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Sotobe, Solomzi Ferguson. "Loss and grief in African families : a narrative pastoral counseling approach." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28460.
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This research case was divided into five facets (amacala) and was carried out in Mthatha at the Eastern Cape Province and in the University of Pretoria in Gauteng Province. The first phase of this project was aimed at introducing a general introductory chapter to this study, the second phase was a research methodology, the third phase was literature review of the related publications, the fourth phase was the pastoral therapeutic process and interviews, the fifth phase was the final phase that cycled off this dissertation with the summary of findings and the conclusions of the research project with recommendations. The uniting factor to help these weak three grouping families would be the theocentric family based on Trinitarian unconditional love covenant, grace, empowering and intimacy. The pastoral care narrative counseling should be based on narrative therapy supported by the Word of God basically in Acts 4.10&12, John 1: 12-13. The marriage question seemed to be source or relationship counselling which also needed theocentric approach to return to family origin of God. The Eurocentric, Africentric and Asiacentric approaches are not the answers to the infected and affected African families experiencing loss and grief and both European and Asian families have the same origin as that of African family, the theocentric family of God. This need further investigate especially to the extended family in Africa and Asia and Asiatic family on Asiatic side. Polygamy also would need much attention since it could be a source of traumatic event to both African and Asian families. Church involvement to counselling was not yet clear how parishioners were trained to help the pastor in the therapeutic activities.Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Schweitzer, Jeffrey R. "Encountering the Significant Dead: A Narrative Inquiry into Grief and Dreams." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406838672.
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Coull, Kim. "The womb artist – a novel: Translating late discovery adoptee pre-verbal trauma into narrative." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1583.
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‘The Womb Artist’ and accompanying exegesis, are a creative, autoethnographical, and performative exposition of the pre-verbal and embodied trauma of Late Discovery Adoptees (LDAs), a little-researched subset of the closed record adoption system in Australia. Using the work of Brodzinsky (1987, 1990, 2005), Lifton (1977, 1992, 1994, 2002) and Verrier (1993, 1997, 2003) on adoption trauma, the recent research by Kenny, Higgins, Soloff & Sweid, (2012) into Australian past adoption experiences, and the seminal work of Helen Riley (2008, 2012, 2013) and Catherine Lynch (2007) into LDAs, this thesis gives a visceral account, together with a critical examination, of the psychosocial consequences of Late Discovery across the life span (pre and post disclosure).
This research, as an example of the interface between trauma and narrative (Caruth, 1995, 1996; Felman and Daub, 1992; Herman, 1992), evokes the embodiment of and provides translation for the LDA experience allowing an investigation of the pre-verbal/pre-disclosure body as an interactive and fluid body of knowledges (Bordo, 1997; Grosz, 1994, 1995). Based on the author’s own life, the novel depicts the protagonist’s relinquishment at birth, her manufactured ‘death’, and her subsequent adoption into the closed record system. Although her adoption status is not revealed until middle age, her pre-verbal body knowledges, incarcerated beneath consciousness in the cellular, muscle/marrow of traumatic memory (Howard & Crandall, 2007; Lipton, 2005; Pert, 1987), communicate through unaddressed adoption psychopathologies such as PTSD (van der Kolk, 1988, 1994, 2002), agoraphobia, depression, dissociation, anxiety, and psychosomatic symptom (Brodzinsky, 2005; Verrier, 1993). The novel translates this body signage and becomes, as “shadow of the object” (Bollas, 1977, 1987), a performance and articulation of the relinquishment wound. The psychopathology, the clairvoyant pre-disclosure paintings, the post-coital glossolalia, the poetry, the journal entries, the long form prose of the novel, are the map to, and the evolution of, a reclaimed, reconstituted, and re-textualised self.
This research uses the techniques and sensibilities of écriture féminine (Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva) in a heavily poetic, metaphoric, choric, and amniotic style that mimics and translates the abyssal and traumatic pre-verbal experience of relinquishment into a reparative prose and provides compelling evidence of the organic, embodied, and ever present and insistent verbosities of the body (Braidotti, 2009; Grosz, 1994, 1995). The novel’s thinly veiled fiction, with its artistic and necessarily protective intent, highlights the schism and slip between fiction and reality as it relates to the relinquishment/adoption experience (Homans, 2006, 2007; Lifton 1977, 1992) and is discussed with reference to the fictionalised autobiographies of Jeanette Winterson (1985), Janet Frame (1957), and Sylvia Plath (1963). In archaeological exploration, creative execution, and theoretical framing, out of the silence of the LDA relinquishment/adoption experience, this thesis illuminates the trauma associated with adoption secrecy and reproductive practices, and makes a strong case in support of the theories of embodiment and the cultural and scholarly value of autoethnographical writing (Bochner, 2000; Grierson, 2009; Pelias, 2004, 2013) but also provides further information and impetus toward developing compassionate and considered approaches within the growing 21st century reproductive psycho-socio-economic industries.
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Stoeckl, Sarah, and Sarah Stoeckl. "Static Chaos: The Great War and Modern Novels of Sterility." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12377.
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The Great War was unprecedented both in its devastation and in the significance people attached to it, which this dissertation contends led to a crisis of representation that manifested in literary tropes and discourses of sterility. Some authors used sterility to represent the war as a cultural and historical apocalypse, others as a basis for questioning how literature, Western civilization, and humanity itself could continue after such a catastrophe. "Static Chaos" theorizes how thematic renderings of sterility work alongside modernist formal experimentation to sever reproductive literary traditions. The widespread instances of sterility reveal the deep effects of the war on non-combatants as well as combatants, as demonstrated through analysis of novels by a diverse group of authors from Britain and United States--Rebecca West, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Claude McKay, and Ford Madox Ford. The study moves chronologically yet it also follows a narrative logic of thwarted human sexual experience beginning with novels focused upon problematic virginity, then those depicting the inability or unwillingness to procreate, and then one preoccupied with pregnancy overshadowed by illegitimacy and stillbirth.
This dissertation draws upon trauma theory and grief and mourning theory, which reveal how, in addition to individual experiences of psychological trauma, the war disabled traditional means of coping, leading to a widespread inability to mourn that was traumatizing in itself. I name this state "traumatic grief" and argue that its pervasiveness led authors to break with a longstanding interconnection between making war and making babies. "Static Chaos" also expands theories that diagnose narrative's mimetic relationship to human sexual intercourse and sexuality, particularly those of Judith Roof and Lee Edelman who assert narrative's heterosexuality based on its traditional logic of continuation. I argue that post-war formal experimentation in modernist literature renders narrative metaphorically sterile by disrupting reproductive traditions and conventions. These formal components include generic manipulation, representations of inversion and paradox, ambiguous or inconclusive endings, and parodic or circular plot structures. Together with themes of sterility, these formal elements work to depict the post-war world as fixed in a barren wasteland, trapped in static chaos.
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Silvén, Hagström Anneli. "To mourn and resist stigma : Narration, meaning-making and self-formation after a parent’s suicide." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Socialt arbete, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130794.
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Grief following a parent’s suicide has been called ‘the silent grief’: due to a prevailing stigma connected to suicide as a mode of death, the parent cannot be talked about. This silenced or distorted communication complicates grieving youths’ meaning reconstruction centred on the question of why the parent committed suicide – a question inevitably linked to queries of who the deceased parent was, and that ultimately triggers thoughts about who oneself has become in the light of this experience. Previous research has emphasized how vulnerable parentally suicidebereaved youths are by categorizing them as ‘at risk group’ of social and psychological problems and even suicide. However, there is scant knowledge about how these young mourners perceive and manage their own grief and need for social support – knowledge that is essential from a professional perspective. The aim of this thesis is to use a narrative research approach to investigate what and how young mourners tell of their experiences in a variety of social contexts: research interviews, a theatre play and two chat contexts on the Internet. Since they actively seek to achieve something through their communication with others, mourning youths are seen as storytellers and social actors, rather than passive victims of circumstance. This thesis shows how these young mourners search for a context outside of their immediate daily networks where they can normalize and liberate themselves and their deceased parent from stigmatizing discourses. The possibility of narrating experiences in a destigmatizing context supports a renegotiation of how to make sense of the suicide – from a voluntary and selfish act, to an involuntary and desperate act caused by adverse life situations or ‘unbearable pain’ and depression. This knowledge is applicable to encounters with parentally suicide-bereaved youths in a professional context, such as social work practice.Sorgen efter en förälders självmord har kallats ”den tysta sorgen”: eftersom självmord alltjämt är en stigmatiserande dödsorsak är det svårt att prata om den döde föräldern. Sådan tystad eller förvrängd kommunikation försvårar unga sörjandes meningsskapande utifrån frågan varför föräldern tog sitt liv – en fråga ofrånkomligen sammankopplad med funderingar om vem den döde föräldern var, vilket ytterst också väcker tankar om vem man själv har blivit i ljuset av denna erfarenhet. Tidigare forskning har betonat självmordsdrabbade barns sårbarhet genom att kategorisera dem som en ”riskgrupp” för sociala och psykologiska problem och till och med självmord. Emellertid är kunskapen knapp om hur dessa sörjande unga själva uppfattar och hanterar sin sorg och sina stödbehov – en angelägen kunskap ur ett professionellt perspektiv. Syftet med denna avhandling är att genom en narrativ forskningsansats undersöka vad och hur unga sörjande berättar om sina erfarenheter i några olika sociala kontexter: i forskningsintervjuer, en teaterföreställning och två olika chattsammanhang på Internet. Eftersom dessa sörjande unga aktivt försöker åstadkomma något genom sin kommunikation med andra förstås de som berättare och sociala aktörer, snarare än passiva offer för omständigheter. Avhandlingen visar hur unga självmordssörjande söker en plats utanför sina vardagliga relationer, där de kan normalisera och frigöra sig själva och den döde föräldern i relation till stigmatiserande diskurser. Möjligheten att berätta om sina erfarenheter i en icke stigmatiserande kontext kan stödja en omförhandling av självmordet – från en frivillig och självisk handling till en ofrivillig och desperat handling orsakad av en svår livssituation och ”outhärdlig smärta” eller depression. Denna kunskap är tillämpbar i mötet med unga självmordssörjande i en professionell kontext, så som det sociala arbetets praktik.
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Hill, Barbara School of English UNSW. "Sing at the Moon: the contextual narrative of isolation and grief in Australian women???s writing." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31451.
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???Sing at the Moon: the contextual narrative of isolation and grief in Australia women???s writing??? comprises two complementary elements of a single thesis: a novel and a critical essay. My novel takes as its starting point the impact of unsolved murders on small regional communities and uses this to explore the effects of isolation and grief on subjectivities, particularly women???s. The novel represents an original contribution to that strand of contemporary Australian fiction, especially as written by women, which deals with the Australian bush myth and the effects on women of the masculinism of Australian national identity. The critical component of my thesis examines Thea Astley???s Drylands and Dorothy Hewett???s Neap Tide in terms of how each novel engages with Australian literary traditions and offers an explicit critique of Australian masculinist culture. I focus on the ways the novels represent violence against women and show how this violence works to underpin the masculinist myth of mateship - to reveal a more sinister underbelly of Australian culture. Their critique of Australian masculinist culture also works at the level of form where both writers subvert a traditional ???realist??? form for political as well as aesthetic purposes. I see myself primarily as a writer and feminist who uses theory and criticism as a way of reflecting on my own creative practice in the light of writing as social responsibility. My approach both to my own novel and to Drylands and Neap Tide is shaped by Susan Lever???s proposal that ???writing and reading lie at the heart of feminism; they are the means by which women can explore and communicate the deepest aspects of their condition??? (2000,132). In my essay I am interested in providing a critical context for the novel by exploring feminist theories of subjectivity and the ways these can be represented in fiction. As a result I will analyse some of the narrative conventions employed in Hewett???s and Astley???s novels. I will show that the work of both writers operates in the context of an Australian literary tradition ??? both past and present ??? and informs and negotiates new ways that accommodate feminist concerns with fictional practice.
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Briggs, Jane Elizabeth. "Unravel and picking at scabs : the underside of grief (a novella and exegesis)." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/49494/1/Jane_Briggs_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis consists of a 46,000 word polyphonic novella, Unravel, and an exegesis, Picking at Scabs: the Underside of Grief. The works are companion pieces, sitting side-by-side, and together they plumb the complex depths of loss and its resultant disorder, painful longing, and sorrow. The novella, representing 75% of the work and creative practice, is a multilayered work, which scrapes at the potent unspeakability of the presence of absence in the lives of its chief protagonists, Hana and Guy. As the novella progresses, loss is unraveled to reveal the interplay of remembering and forgetting, past and present and the ways in which these knotty fibres are connected with the strands of memory, trauma, silence, and the uncanny. Each of these threads is woven into the novella and as they plait together, loosen and fray, they expose the mystery, lies and secrets at the core of the novella. The exegesis, which comprises 25% of the thesis, picks at loss to uncover and loosen a complex and worn tangle of knots and loops. In this way, the exegesis and creative work are constantly in dialogue and while neither provides all the answers, both stretch the yarn to reveal an enthusiasm of practice.
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Selleck, Claire D. "“We Just Didn’t Talk About It:” Strategies of Stigmatized Grief Management." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3900.
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This study explores the experiences of people who have lost loved ones due to socially stigmatized deaths. Drawing from eight individual interviews, the author argues that the stigma associated with death due to drug overdose, suicide, substance abuse, or murder can cause traumatic or prolonged grief and can complicate the way the bereaved talk about grief as a part of their healing process. With the mortality rate in the U.S. rising, there is an epidemic of disenfranchised grief affecting millions of bereaved individuals. Using Coordinated Management of Meaning and Communication Privacy Management theories, the author uncovers strategies the traumatically bereaved employ to manage interactions and relationships with others. A qualitative analysis of participant interviews revealed that social stigma, whether experienced or anticipated, affects the way the bereaved communicate and can cause self-silencing. Findings indicate a need for safe, supportive, and non-judgmental spaces for the traumatically bereaved to share their stories.
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Barnhill, Julia Janelle. "Giving Meaning to Grief: The Role of Rituals and Stories in Coping with Sudden Family Loss." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2996.
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In this dissertation, I seek to better understand the sensemaking process among surviving family members after a tragic loss of a teenage or young adult child. Using social constructionism (Gergen, 1991) as a theoretical framework, I focused on how meanings of loss are constructed through the use of language and other symbols. I specifically looked at the role of family stories and rituals in making sense of the sudden loss as well as how a survivor's role as a sibling or parent may impact the grieving process. The participants in my research were all members of families in which a child had died unexpectedly in adolescence or young adulthood. I combined multiple in-depth interviews with parents and siblings in each family with episodes of participant-observation. Then I used inductive thematic analysis to examine the patterns of ritualizing in each family, and a process of narrative analysis focusing on the accounts of three siblings and two parents in order to explore how survivors structure their experience in stories.
I found that rituals and artifacts play a significant role in assisting family members in coping with bereavement. Even though previous family rituals and traditions are disrupted by the death, families find ways of creating and enacting new rituals. The invention and adoption of new rituals seems to serve an important role in "successful" grieving as a way of sustaining bonds with lost loved ones. I also found that survivors, in sharing with me the stories of sudden loss, worked to construct storylines that tie events together by showing how they are meaningfully, and sometimes causally, connected. In addition, the stories showed how survivors "find benefit" by reframing painful events as positive and growthful.
Throughout my analysis of rituals and stories, I looked for similarities or differences between the siblings' and parents' experiences. One insight to emerge from the study was that bereavement is a very individual event, and the resulting differences in expressions and degrees of grief among different family members can put a strain on the family system. Another key theme that emerged was the protective stance taken by surviving siblings towards their parents after the death of a brother or sister, which sometimes involved minimizing the display of their own emotions. In this sense, the siblings seem to have experienced what the literature has called "prohibited mourning," By contrast. parental grief seems to be more socially acknowledged.
This study holds potential benefits for those scholars interested in bereavement as a meaning-making process as well as the effects on the family system. Therapists who treat families might find the insights these participants contribute to be helpful in creating ways to communicate with their clients.
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Rosa, Fabrício Silva. "Mães em luto: narrativas de sofrimento decorrentes do extermínio de jovens em Goiânia." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6004.
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“Mothers in grief: narratives of suffering caused by youth extermination in Goiânia” depicts the results of my forays into the lives of adolescents’ mothers who were murdered meanwhile the accomplishment of socio-educational policies in Goiânia. Based on information from records available in the public body responsible for monitoring youngsters in conflict with the law, along with compelling stories of women in grief, I have tried to comprehend their biographies and discuss motherhood, noticeably those experienced mainly in adversity conditions, moreover their anguish and pain due to conflicts faced by their children. Furthermore, I have examined the role of mothers in caring for their children, not only defending their rights but also organizing social mechanisms to claim them, also the effects of death and the elaboration of mourning in their daily lives. Motherhood, gender, adolescence and grief were made conceptual lenses through which the lives of these women were read. The results demonstrate that the extermination of youngsters is followed by social representations of woman hyper liability in child support amongst feminization contexts of poverty, consolidated in processes of exclusion of the less white youngsters, peripheral and lower access to material goods, crisscrossed with a cruel and violent war against drugs.
“Mães em luto: narrativas de sofrimento decorrentes do extermínio de jovens em Goiânia” apresenta os resultados de minhas incursões na vida de mães de adolescentes que foram assassinados durante o cumprimento de medidas socioeducativas em Goiânia. A partir de informações constantes em prontuários disponíveis no órgão público responsável por acompanhar jovens em conflito com a lei, e com base em contundentes relatos de mulheres que estão em luto, busquei compreender suas biografias e discutir maternidades, notadamente aquelas vivenciadas em condições de adversidades, angústias e dores, devido às conflituosidades experimentadas pelos filhos. Examinei o protagonismo das mães no cuidado com os filhos, na defesa de seus direitos e na organização de mecanismos sociais para reivindicá-los, e também os efeitos da morte e a elaboração do luto em seus quotidianos. Maternidade, gênero, adolescência e luto fizeram-se lentes conceituais através das quais as existências dessas mulheres foram lidas. Os resultados revelam que o extermínio dos jovens é acompanhado de representações sociais de hiperresponsabilização da mulher no sustento do filho em contextos de feminização da pobreza, amalgamadas a processos de exclusão das juventudes menos brancas, periféricas e com menor acesso a bens materiais, entrecruzada com uma política cruel e violentadora de guerra às drogas.
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Chae, Jung Hae. "Arirang Redux." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/942.
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Arirang Redux is a collection of poems that explores the theme of female identity across East-West cultures, as well as such universal ideas as grief, loss, power, and memory--considered through the lens of an Asian female, multi-cultured, immigrant persona. Written mostly in a free verse, lyric-narrative style, these poems examine the psychological boundaries across genders, cultures, traditions, languages, and social hierarchies that exert forces on the lives of women.
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Spinazola, Lisa Pia Zonni. "Lives on the (story)Line: Group Facilitation with Men in Recovery at The Salvation Army." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7366.
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In this dissertation, I seek to examine the effects of purposeful journaling and guided storytelling on past traumas, perception of current lives, and the development of new coping skills among men at The Salvation Army’s residential adult rehabilitation center (ARC). All residents of the ARC must attend Christian-based devotional services, go to Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) meetings, follow the A.A. 12-step program, and sign up for several weekly counseling and educational groups, one of which is the “Guided Journaling and Storytelling” group I lead. The men who attended this group are (1) addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, (2) face homelessness, (3) cope with some form of mental or physical health issue, (4) may have criminal records, and (5) have alienated most of their social support.
Through a twelve-week curriculum I developed, I introduced coping skills—building resilience, expressive writing, and deep breathing—while incorporating art, music, and poetry in the groups. I elicited participants’ stories through prompts, using my own experiences to model vulnerability and demonstrate concepts, such as: narrative reframing; how memories can be uncertain, partial, and elusive; how storytelling can prompt forgotten stories; and the efficacy of including emotion and rich details in the stories we tell. Knowing the value of writing and storytelling, I set out to see if the communicative practices I had learned in the past that had improved my life situation might assist others to write themselves out of destructive patterns, desperation, and trauma, and into sober and more fulfilling lives.
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Ali, Nada. "The Making and Breaking of an Icon." Thesis, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-569.
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This essay is an effort to write my thoughts and reflections on my art practice, focusing on the work to-be-realized for my solo show in March 2021 at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm. I’ve had the intention to complement and stabilize my imagined-artwork with my writing, only to realize such a task’s difficulty. Firstly, because language itself can be unstable. Secondly, fear of losing a quality in art that is unstable in its nature. The essay consists of three sections: In the first one, I tell how I think and feel through my art practice. I also propose making space for new knowledge: In my art practice, I lean on magical thinking to stimulate bodily movements.1 I think that we need to balance ourselves between rational thinking and other modes of thinking, and this in-between-space requires continuous negotiations of different kinds. In section two, I explain how I think of images and share how I process them through my work. Then I share stories of entangled images that I’m using as source images in my current work. In the third and last section, I delve into my deep desire to control images. I challenge told narratives and reflect on creative practices of destruction and reparation.@ Galleri Mejan, Exercisplan 3, March 2021 Media: installation and a video projection. Materials: Clay, ceramic, plaster, linen, and mixed media. The Making and Breaking of an Icon is a long-term project: I repeatedly destroy and repair a self-made ceramic sculpture. The faceless figure has multiple arms and hands that seem to be hugging or containing the body. At the moment of showing the work at Galleri Mejan, the sculpture was broken, and in process of reparation. Fragments of the sculpture were laying on the ground, I continued to glue them up during the show. A shelf placed up high in the same room displays 7 small plaster replicas of the same figure, but with the addition of a horned cap on their heads. one of the replicas is broken on the ground underneath the shelf. The mold reproducing the plaster pieces is shown by the corner and seems to be in the action of production. By the entrance, a fetus-like ceramic sculpture is opening both arms. In the other room, the video work "Falling for the Narrative" is showing a performance I did earlier with the sculpture. In this performance, dressed in a self-made costume, I interact with the sculpture as a living thing: I project veneration and aggression on it. The costume that is made of linen, has carrier sacks sewed in the back, filled with rice and coins. the costume weighs around 4kgs. In the corner of the room, a pile of dust is formed on the ground.
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Sturrock, Colleen. "The significance of meaning-making, agency and social support: a narrative study of how poor women cope with perinatal loss." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14336.
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Perinatal loss (stillbirth or the death of a neonate) can result in considerable psycho-social disruption for mothers. As women grieve, they try to make meaning of the death of their baby. In contexts of social and economic deprivation, perinatal loss often occurs alongside other difficulties which may affect and limit women's ability to make meaning. A narrative approach was used to explore how meaning-making functions in such contexts. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 women who had experienced perinatal loss while attending a state maternity hospital. Narratives which the mothers constructed of the event were examined in order to understand what meanings they derived from the loss, and how these were (or not) achieved. These narratives were often linked to other stories of pervasive life difficulties. Despite their difficult contexts, the bereaved mothers engaged in meaning-making in similar ways to those described in previous studies in more affluent settings: they attempted to integrate the loss with their identity and goals, they affirmed the baby as a real person to be mourned and they searched for reasons for the loss. The effect of their contexts on meaning-making was mediated by social support and personal agency. Where one or both of these were present, the bereaved mothers were able to find meaning in their loss; women who had neither seemed unable to do so. Those who portrayed themselves as agentic were able to reflect on their experience and make decisions to change their lives. Mothers with strong social support made meaning through conversations, social validation of the loss and social help which mitigated against the sense of helplessness engendered by their loss and circumstances. It is recommended that hospital and counselling services implement practices which help to build or consolidate personal agency and social support to facilitate successful meaning-making following perinatal loss.
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Silvén, Hagström Anneli. "När pappa tog sitt liv : En narrativ studie av fyra unga kvinnors berättelser om erfarenheten av att under tonåren ha förlorat sin pappa i självmord." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Social Work, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42533.
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Grief research generally demonstrates that children and teenagers who have lost a parent in suiciderisk developing severe psychological and physical morbidity, as well as social disabilities, in adultlife as a result of traumatic aspects of the death and complicated grief reactions. The youngbereaved also run a highly increased risk of developing suicidal behaviour or to commit suicidethemselves. Despite these alarming reports, the research field is poorly explored and studies thattake an interest in the long-term consequences and the subjective experiences of the bereavedyoungsters are lacking. A qualitative study using narrative methods has been carried out toexamine the experiences of four young women, who during adolescence lost a father in suicide.The study specifically focuses on the grief process, the short- and long-term consequences, and theneed for social support in relation to family, extended network and society. The study reveals thatthe women’s traumatic loss has shattered their basic assumptions about the world as a safe andmeaningful place. A fear of losing another significant person, i.e. the remaining parent, siblings ora life partner is also a common denominator. The women have experienced complicated griefreactions such as guilt, shame, anger, feelings of abandonment and “why-questions” regardingtheir fathers’ suicide motives. They have found it difficult to receive social support due to moralaspects of suicide as a death cause – sometimes even within their own family – and due to a fear ofbeing condemned or regarded abnormal if they told others about their trauma. The time aspect isnot found to have affected the grief process. This process has been facilitated, however, throughsocial support from family, relatives, friends and professionals. Moreover, “sense-making”, or thecapacity to construct an understanding of the loss experience, as well as the active process of“re-membering”, has been found valuable in the grief process as it contributes to the constructionof an inner representation of the father. A continued relationship to the father after his death has inmost cases been regarded as helpful in the grief process. The women describe that the father’ssuicide has affected their self-conception and their life contents. Coping with the loss the womenseem to have developed stronger self-esteem, but at the same time some of them have come toregard themselves as “odd” and more mature in comparison with their peers. All women talk abouttheir fathers’ deaths with high actuality, indicating that the grief is most present. The womendescribe a re-priority of what they find important in life; close relationships are portrayed as moreimportant, as well as being helpful to others.
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D'Aloisio, Michael J. "A Narrative Inquiry into Community College Student Experience with Loss and Grief| Can Loss Be Transformational from a Post-Jungian Perspective." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10683421.
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How are ancient mythological figures like Sisyphus, who rolls his rock ceaselessly up a mountain, and Kali, the fierce Hindu goddess associated with empowerment, relevant for students today who suffer from trauma caused by the unexpected death of a loved one? Mythological stories rise above history and look beyond the “turbulent flux of random events to uncover what is enduring in human experience and glimpse the core of reality” (Armstrong, 2005, p. 7). According to Jung (1955, 2009), touching upon the mythic and archetypal level of the unconscious has the power to bring forth tremendous energy into one’s life. This qualitative study explores student stories about loss and grief, using a post-Jungian mythopoeic lens to construct meaning and discover purpose.
Most of the research to date on loss and grief has focused on the classical task and phase models of bereavement centered on emotional expression; however, few studies (e.g., Bocchino, 2008; Trammell, 1999) have examined the bereavement experiences of students at an urban community college. For this inquiry, key concepts that prohibit students from mourning, such as complicated grief and disenfranchised grief, are presented and a critical review of several paradigmatic perspectives on grief theory shed light on where we are today.
Four students were invited to tell their story about the loss of a loved one. This study demonstrates that a Jungian psychological perspective offers a road map to better understand how a student’s mourning process can be interpreted as a potentially transformative event.
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Kariotaki, Sophia. "Under the shadow of recession : a narrative exploration of young Greek graduates' experience of recession." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/under-the-shadow-of-recessiona-narrative-exploration-of-young-greek-graduates-experience-of-recession(046707f9-e56b-4549-903f-148ed67c1982).html.
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Since the recession has hit Greece, individuals have not only experienced financial loss but they have seen their whole life overhauled by the crisis. The purpose of this study is to explore how young Greeks who have recently graduated, or who are about to graduate, perceive their lives and futures at this time of severe economic crisis. More particularly, I tried to focus on their feelings (such as worries and hopes) about how the recession has impacted their lives and their feelings regarding their futures. Research has shown that during periods of recession, young individuals are affected the most and for that reason I chose this population as the target group of my research. Coming from the perspective of developmental and life-span theories that in order to achieve healthy psychological development, individuals need to go through particular tasks during their life span; I was particularly interested to see how the recession has psychologically affected young individuals who, even though they have recently ended two of the main markers that identify their transition to adulthood (education and gaining a professional qualification) due to the recession they were unable to move to the stages which are employment and financial in-dependence. I wanted to listen to these individuals’ stories and see how they perceive their lives and futures and what their feelings are during the period of recession. In a narrative framework, following an unstructured interview and asking the participants one main question, ‘What are your thoughts and feelings about your life and your future during the period of recession?’, the participants were allowed to express their stories and what they considered as important, creating in that way unique narratives that represented their own processes. The main themes that were identified from the stories are: ‘Their career choice and their hopes for employment prospects’, ‘Broken dreams and collecting the pieces’, ‘Impact of recession on the individual’, ‘Impact of recession on other aspects of their life’ and ‘Participants’ feelings about their future’. Presenting and exploring the participants’ stories I attempted to gain a better understanding and awareness of how the recession has impacted them psychologically, investigating their psychological needs finding ways to support them. The realisation of the significant losses that were described by the participants drove the researcher to turn to bereavement counselling theory trying to identify ways to psychologically support individuals who experience similar losses and clinical interventions were suggested.
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Howard, Krystal J., and Caryn L. Kruse. "USING NARRATIVE AND RE-MEMBERING CONVERSATIONS IN A BEREAVEMENT GROUP WITH STUDENTS IMPACTED BY SUICIDE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/152.
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To date, there have been no studies utilizing a narrative bereavement model for students impacted by suicide, in a group counseling setting. The present project intends to fill a gap in the literature. We sought to answer the research question, “Do narrative lines of inquiry, specifically re-membering conversations, help to ameliorate the pain of a loved one’s death by suicide?” We hypothesized that re-membering conversations would help to reduce pain, based on the premise that re-membering conversations reconnect the bereaved to the life of their deceased loved one, using a narrative which allows the life, values, thoughts, and wishes of the deceased to be brought forward and reincorporated into the life and future of the bereaved. The present research project consisted of a five-week bereavement group for college students impacted by the suicide of a friend or loved one. The group was structured like a case study in that we conducted a counseling group while collecting research data. Therefore, it was both research-oriented and therapeutic in nature. A sample of convenience was used to recruit and screen previously bereaved college students from a large state university in southern California. The group members self-selected and identified as having been affected by the suicide of a loved one. Each session lasted approximately 120 minutes. Research data consisted of open-ended questions, which were previously prepared by the researchers. This data was collected through audio recorders, transcribed and organized according to related themes. Benefits of the project include: decreased emotional pain due to the suicide, group camaraderie, reconnection with a deceased loved one, and hopefulness for future. The overall findings seem to suggest the following: The deceased always play a role in how we come to understand our own identity. Bringing other people’s voices into the room, whether living or dead, lightens the burden of grief. Having never met the person does not prohibit the living from having a relationship with the dead. Removing places for the deceased loved one to live on only increases pain. The present project seems to support the hypothesis that re-membering conversations help to ameliorate the pain associated with the death of a loved one by suicide. Future research may include quantitative data collection, random samples, larger sample size and varying demographics. Other studies could involve using control groups and then comparing those results with the counseled group. The anecdotal evidence found in the present research project seems to support the further study of the use of re-membering conversations with those bereaved by suicide.
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Niestrath, Sean. "As those who have hope a Christian constructive approach to grieving death losses among members of the East Main Church of Christ, Kalamazoo, Michigan /." Abilene, TX : Abilene Christian University, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.050-0154.
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Silva, Gezenira Rodrigues da. "O luto materno em narrativas de vida e de morte: uma abordagem sociológico-discursiva da perda." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2015. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/21789.
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SILVA, Gezenira Rodrigues da. O luto materno em narrativas de vida e de morte: uma abordagem sociológico-discursiva da perda. 2015. 192f. - Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza (CE), 2015.Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-01-20T16:54:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_grsilva.pdf: 1445366 bytes, checksum: 8a4a2c25a3a8520c6a51615e6e85ebf7 (MD5)
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A presente tese é fruto do trabalho de pesquisas com narrativas de vida de mães que passaram pela experiência do luto, provocado pela morte violenta do filho. Este estudo, de natureza pluridisciplinar, busca estabelecer um diálogo entre diferentes áreas das ciências humanas, tais como: a linguística, a sociologia e a psicologia, em torno da análise do objeto: discurso do luto. De um lado, são convocadas bases linguísticas e discursivas, através das quais são postas à luz a capacidade dos enunciados em expressarem de forma linguisticamente particular o discurso da dor e do luto. Do outro, sublinham-se as ancoragens sociológicas e psicológicas, que põem em evidência o contexto e as relações sociais mediante a morte. Nosso objetivo geral foi caracterizar o discurso do luto materno, a partir de narrativas de mães que relatam a perda inesperada e violenta de um filho e suas consequências. Nosso questionamento central foi o de como o discurso do luto materno particulariza-se em relação aos demais textos narrativos autobiográficos, ao levarmos em contas os aspectos afetivo-sociais e narrativo-discursivos. Servimo-nos de diferentes concepções teórico-metodológicas como ferramentas de análise. Adotamos uma pesquisa de caráter explicativo, interpretativo, qualitativo, etnossociológico, guiada pelo método autobiográfico, com dados coletados através da técnica da entrevista narrativa. Utilizamos em nossas análises dois blocos de categorias: caracterização sócio-afetiva, com categorias criadas a partir da interpretação do corpus e dos estudos de Bowlby (1997); e caracterização narrativo-discursiva, com categorias baseadas principalmente nos estudos de Maia-Vasconcelos (2003; 2005) e de Labov (1972; 1997). Nosso estudo mostrou que narrativas de vida de mães, cujos filhos foram vítimas de homicídio, apresentam especificações no que diz respeito à sequencialidade, à temporalidade, ao uso de princípios de estruturação e à elaboração semântico-discursiva. Percebemos que estes fatores são resultantes do teor emocional e afetivo, que compõem o tema deste tipo de discurso. Discursos narrativos autobiográficos com a temática voltada para o luto, provocado pela morte violenta de um filho, apresentam características que o diferenciam dos demais gêneros narrativos autobiográficos, principalmente, no que diz respeito ao posicionamento do sujeito e à estruturação do discurso em si. Além disso, concluímos que as narrativas estudadas refletem um discurso coletivo de mães que expressam a dor pela perda de um filho. Há uma interligação da narrativa do luto individual com as demais narrativas advindas de contextos e vivências semelhantes.
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Hultdin, Ida, and Erika Nilsson. "Närståendes upplevelser när en anhörig suiciderar och tiden därefter : En analys av narrativ." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Omvårdnad, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-71755.
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Varje år suiciderar 800 000personer världen över. I Sverige 2016 avled 1 129 personer till följd av suicid. Efter ett suicid är det ett stort antal närstående som lämnas kvar. Ett suicid kan av närstående upplevas traumatiskt och leda till en stor sorg och ett enormt lidande. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva närståendes upplevelser av att en anhörig suicideraroch tiden därefter. Studiens resultat bygger på en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med manifest ansats där narrativ i en bok har analyserats. Detta resulterade i tre kategorier: Att nås av beskedet och söka förklaringar; Att klandra sig själv och känna skuld; Att det är viktigt att få dela sin sorg med andra och få stöd. Närstående har ett behov av stöd och tröst, både professionellt samt från vänner och familj. Sjuksköterskan kan hjälpa dessa personer genom att lyssna och identifiera deras styrkor och behov, på så vis kan närstående erbjudas rätt hjälp och stöd.
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Forsberg, Anette. ""De står tillsammans och försöker förstå det ofattbara" : Medierade sorgeyttringar i svensk nyhetsjournalistik." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-587.
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The aim of this Master thesis was to examine news journalism covering expressions of mourning related to violent or unexpected deaths. What rituals for mourning are brought out in media and do media present guidance to how mourners should behave?
The questions examined were: What characterised news events that leaded to texts on expressions of mourning? How was grief framed? Which narrative patterns were there in the texts? How was the deceased represented? How were the mourners represented?
165 texts, from Swedish daily newspapers, covering 93 different news events were analysed. The methods were mainly discourse analysis with focus on identities and relations, but also semiotic analysis with focus on staging and symbols and narrative analysis with focus on patterns for storytelling.
The result showed that a news story about ordinary people expressing their feelings of grief has elements of melodrama. The news story is based on the myth of the victim, and formed as a typical story where equilibrium is disturbed when the inconceivable happens and the mourners can by their actions restore equilibrium. The paradigms behind are the opposites
life – death and good – evil.
The deceased is represented as a victim in a mythic sense. The most important qualities of a victim are youth, innocence and goodness. The victim is framed as a person we could sympathise and identify with. The mourners in the texts praise the victim and sanctify the place where the victim died with candles, roses and notes. The mourners are essential to the story; they create identification and an identity that include us as readers in a community and a discourse of mourning and mourners. The ordinary people who appear as mourners in the texts are relatives and close friends of the victim, but also mourning tourists, media chosen friends and anonymous women who are represented, in a stereotypical way, as the professional female mourner who weep over the deceased. In some texts celebrities appear as mourners of ordinary people, and they personalize how the distinction between public and private is erased in popular journalism. They also might give a kind of legitimacy to the way media frame the story about ordinary people mourning the innocent victim.
Some texts had a partly diverging story. If the victim, in some aspect, could not be framed as innocent the paradigm good – evil became problematic. When victims or mourners had foreign origin the contrast us – them was added. In some texts the ethical code for Swedish journalists was disregarded, mainly by publishing information on ethnicity or by interviewing children and people in shock
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Santana, Regina de Oliveira. "...e eles viveram felizes até seu fim.: narrativas contemporâneas sobre a morte e o morrer na literatura infantil brasileira." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8241.
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A proposta desta tese é analisar a abordagem dos temas da morte, do morrer, da perda e do luto pela literatura infantil brasileira contemporânea. Com base em livros disponibilizados no mercado (lojas físicas e virtuais), portanto acessíveis ao público, busca compreender como a morte é narrada em seus textos e ilustrações, conjunto que, na literatura infantil, assume papel essencial. Nesta trajetória, faz-se igualmente necessária a reflexão sobre a concepção infantilizada da infância, que, na hipermodernidade, culmina na fragilização de sua autonomia e na noção equivocada, dentre outras, de que crianças não são capazes de vivenciar dores intensas e devem ser poupadas do contato com a morte. A abordagem dos livros de literatura infantil sobre a morte torna ainda imprescindível colocar em discussão as possibilidades que a literatura proporciona para a compreensão do homem diante deste evento no contexto histórico e social hipermoderno. Para tanto, o percurso escolhido desconstrói a noção vigente sobre a literatura, na qual é considerada como elemento ilustrativo, reconhecendo-a como importante recurso para as ciências humanas e sociais. Para além desta proposta, cabe ainda considerar a literatura não a partir de uma perspectiva utilitarista (o ler é importante), nem tão pouco como um recurso meramente terapêutico, mas como perspectiva de ressignificação de experiências de vida, de conhecimento do humano, de abertura para o outro e de inserção social e política. Num movimento recíproco, lemos e somos lidos pelos textos e pelas imagens; construímos nossas narrativas ao mesmo tempo em que elas nos constroem. Neste sentido, nosso momento histórico é uma folha em branco que traz em si o potencial de escrevermos as próximas linhas, páginas, capítulos... até o fimThe present thesis aims at analyze the approach of the themes of death, dying, loss and grief in contemporary Brazilian children's literature. Based on books available on the market (shops "physical and virtual"), thus accessible to the public, it seeks to understand how death is narrated in their texts and illustrations, a set that, in children's literature, assumes a fundamental role. In this trajectory, it is also necessary to reflect on the "infantilized" conception of childhood that, in hypermodernity culminates in weakening of its autonomy and in the mistaken notion, among others, that children are not able to experience severe pain and should be spared the contact with death. The approach of the children's literature books about death makes it imperative to discuss about possibilities that literature provides for understanding man facing this event in the historical and hypermodern social context. Thus, the chosen course deconstructs the current notion about literature, which is considered as illustrative element, recognizing it as an important resource for the human and social sciences. Beyond this proposal, it is worth not to consider literature from an "utilitarian" perspective (the "reading is important"), nor merely as a therapeutic resource, but as a perspective for reframing life experiences, for knowledge of human, for openness to each other and for social and political inclusion. In a reciprocal movement, we read the texts and images and they read us; we build our narratives while they build us. In this sense, our historical moment is a blank sheet that carries the potential for us to write the next lines, pages, chapters ... until the end
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Aulet, Ruiz Adriana. "Process Research and Meaning Reconstruction in Psychotherapy: Development of a System of Categories of psychotherapeutic interventions and application to a case of grief." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669889.
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La present recerca té com a objectiu estudiar les intervencions del psicoterapeuta, els patrons que s'estableixen al llarg del procés de teràpia i l'impacte que tenen en els processos del client. També busquem estudiar i descriure els mecanismes i tècniques semàntic-narratives involucrades en el procés de psicoteràpia des de la perspectiva del psicoterapeuta. Aquest enfocament s'emmarca dins de la recerca hermenèutica qualitativa entesa des de la perspectiva constructivista relacional i la psicoteràpia narrativa del dol. Aquesta tesi comprèn dos estudis principals: l'Estudi 1 va enfocar el procés de desenvolupament d'un nou sistema de codificació transteòric i fàcil d'utilitzar, el Sistema de Codificació d'Intervencions del Psicoterapeuta - Psychotherapist Interventions Coding System (PICS), que s'enfoca en l'ús del llenguatge per part del psicoterapeuta durant tot el procés de psicoteràpia. El sistema de codificació resultant comprèn 4 macrogrups, que contenen categories específiques: 1. Contracte discursiu; 2. Facilitadors de la relació terapèutica 3. Facilitadors del discurs del client; i 4. Alliberament de discursos restrictius. L'Estudi 2 va consistir en l'aplicació del PICS a una psicoteràpia de dol amb bon resultat; l'objectiu era validar i millorar el sistema de codificació (PICS); i amb el resultat, contribuir al coneixement sobre les intervencions del psicoterapeuta i el seu impacte en el procés de psicoteràpia. Les conclusions més significatives i les contribucions extretes de tot el procés de recerca són les següents: (a) El PICS pot usar-se per a estudiar com i quines intervencions del psicoterapeuta poden estar contribuint de diferents maneres dins dels processos de psicoteràpia; (b) Hem aplicat amb èxit aquest sistema i hem ampliat el coneixement sobre com les intervencions i tècniques narratives del psicoterapeuta faciliten el treball per a integrar la pèrdua en la història de la vida del client; (c) Hem provat el nostre sistema i promovem el seu ús com a eina per a desenvolupar la formació de psicoterapeutes novells en la pràctica clínica; (d) Hem ampliat la literatura sobre els processos que intervenen en el curs i el desenvolupament de l'elaboració d'un procés de dol en un context psicoterapèutic.La presente investigación tiene como objetivo estudiar las intervenciones del psicoterapeuta, los patrones que se establecen a lo largo del proceso de terapia y el impacto que tienen en los procesos del cliente. También buscamos estudiar y describir los mecanismos y técnicas semántico-narrativas involucradas en el proceso de psicoterapia desde la perspectiva del psicoterapeuta. Este enfoque se enmarca dentro de la investigación hermenéutica cualitativa entendida desde la perspectiva constructivista relacional y la psicoterapia narrativa del duelo. Esta tesis comprende dos estudios principales: el Estudio 1 enfocó el proceso de desarrollo de un nuevo sistema de codificación transteórico y fácil de usar, el Sistema de Codificación de Intervenciones del Psicoterapeuta - Psychotherapist Interventions Coding System (PICS), que se enfoca en el uso del lenguaje por parte del psicoterapeuta durante todo el proceso de psicoterapia. El sistema de codificación resultante comprende 4 macrogrupos, que contienen categorías específicas: 1. Contrato discursivo; 2. Facilitadores de la relación terapéutica 3. Facilitadores del discurso del cliente; y 4. Liberación de discursos restrictivos. El Estudio 2 consistió en la aplicación del PICS a una psicoterapia de duelo con buen resultado; el objetivo era validar y mejorar el sistema de codificación (PICS); y con el resultado, contribuir al conocimiento sobre las intervenciones del psicoterapeuta y su impacto en el proceso de psicoterapia. Las conclusiones más significativas y las contribuciones extraídas de todo el proceso de investigación son las siguientes: (a) El PICS pueden usarse para estudiar cómo y qué intervenciones del psicoterapeuta pueden estar contribuyendo de diferentes maneras dentro de los procesos de psicoterapia; (b) Hemos aplicado con éxito este sistema y hemos ampliado el conocimiento sobre cómo las intervenciones y técnicas narrativas del psicoterapeuta facilitan el trabajo para integrar la pérdida en la historia de la vida del cliente; (c) Hemos probado nuestro sistema y promovemos su uso como herramienta para desarrollar la formación de psicoterapeutas nóveles en la práctica clínica; (d) Hemos ampliado la literatura sobre los procesos que intervienen en el curso y el desarrollo de la elaboración de un proceso de duelo en un contexto psicoterapéutico.
The present investigation aims to study the psychotherapist interventions, the patterns that are established throughout the process and the impact these have on the client's processes. We also seek to study and describe the semantic-narrative mechanisms and techniques involved in the psychotherapy process from the psychotherapist's perspective. This approach is framed within qualitative hermeneutical research understood from the relational constructivist perspective and narrative grief psychotherapy. This thesis comprises two main studies: Study 1 focused developing process of a new transtheoretical and easily usable coding system, the Psychotherapist Interventions Coding System (PICS), which is focused on the use of language by the psychotherapist throughout the psychotherapy process. The resultant coding system comprises 4 macro-groups, which contain specific categories: 1. Discursive contract; 2. Facilitators of the therapeutic relationship 3. Facilitators of the client's’ speech; and 4. Liberation of constraining speeches. Study 2 consisted of the application of the PICS to a good outcome grief psychotherapy case; we aimed to validate and improve the coding system (PICS); and with the outcome, we contributed to the knowledge on the psychotherapist’s interventions and their impact on the psychotherapy process. The most significant conclusion and contributions drawn from the whole investigation process are: (a) The PICS may be used to study how and which psychotherapist interventions may be contributing in different ways within psychotherapeutic processes; (b) We have successfully applied this system and have enlarged the knowledge on how the psychotherapist’s interventions and narrative techniques facilitate the work of integrating the loss into one's life history; (c) We have tested our system and promote its use as a tool to develop novel psychotherapist training in the clinic practice; (d) We have enlarged the literature on the processes that are involved in the course and development of the elaboration of a grieving process in a psychotherapeutic context.
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Martin, Julia. "Days Ending in Why." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32993.
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In DAYS ENDING IN WHY, interdisciplinary artist Julia Martin identifies the schism of her autobiographical practice: deep melancholia and absurd irony. The fragmentation of the works presented knowingly resist cohesion, instead, through their arrangements and the potentials of space between them, they carry on conversations with one another. Rooted in the personal narrative, the works span across multiple mediums; photography, film, installation/sculpture, and literature. Martin emphasizes both the tragic and the comedic, pacing the show as a play between the two. Also, there are cats.
So many cats.
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Mulligan, Kerry-Jane. "A distance too far away : a novel and exegesis." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61025/1/Kerry_Mulligan_Thesis.pdf.
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This practice-led research examines the generative function of loss in fiction that explores themes of grief and longing. This research considers how loss may be understood as a structuring mechanism through which characters evaluate time, resolve loss and affect future change.
The creative work is a work of literary fiction titled A Distance Too Far Away. Aubrey, the story’s protagonist, is a woman in her twenties living in Brisbane in the early 1980s, carving out an independent life for herself away from her family. Through a flashback narrative sequence, told from the perspective of the twelve year narrator, Aubrey retraces a significant point of rupture in her life following a series of family tragedies. A Distance Too Far Away explores the tension between belonging and freedom, and considers how the past provides a malleable space for illuminating desire in order to traverse the gap between the world as it is and the world as we want it to be.
The exegetical component of this research considers an alternative critical frame for interpreting the work of American author Anne Tyler, a writer who has had a significant influence on my own practice. Frequently criticised for creating sentimental and inert characters, many critics observe that nothing happens in Tyler’s circular plots. This research challenges these assertions, and through a contextual analysis of Tyler’s Ladder of Years (1995) investigates how Tyler engages with memory and nostalgia in order to move across time and resolve loss.
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Allard-Gendron, Évelyne. "FUNAMBULES suivi de Écrire la marginalité: choix narratifs pour une démarginalisation des personnages." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/27918/27918.pdf.
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Wikström, Daniel. "Death of the Artist : En kulturanalys av digitalt sörjande över avlidna musiker." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167504.
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Showing grief and loss over deceased musicians is something people have been doing on forums and online webshrines since home computers and the internet became part of our daily lives. Studies of this phenomenon have shown that grievers did so as a process of being in a state of disenfranchised grief, meaning that their grief wasn’t seen as legitimate or genuine, since they didn’t have a personal relationship with the deceased musician. Grief on the internet as an unidentifiable avatar on forums and shrines was a possibility many took hold of. Since the entrance of social media however, this notion of keeping grief over famous musicians (or other celebrities) private have changed. Whenever a famous person dies it is hard to miss Facebook statuses and comments written in sorrow and grief. This essay studies grief ridden comments on three different deceased musicians official Facebook profiles, how they are written, how personal they are, and how they relate to the musician. The essay also gets into a discussion how other users in grief effects the expressions of grief and how the medium and infrastructure of Facebook itself is contributing to the expressions.
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Le, Berre Rozenn. "Le deuil : expérience et réception collective ; De la narrativité à l'accompagnement." Thesis, Lille 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL30035.
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Il s'agit d'étudier la rencontre entre le vécu intime du deuil et sa réception collective. en effet, qu'est-ce que vivre un deuil ? c'est souffrir de la mort d'un être proche et aimé et devoir s'adapter à l'absence, se réorganiser. mais les évolutions possibles d'un deuil sont variées et dépendent largement de facteurs extérieurs. la notion d'attachement dont la perte d'un être cher est la rupture physique laisse subsister une relation vitale d'un genre particulier qui est appelée à évoluer et qui constitue le deuil. le deuil concerne un fait psychologique qui possède sa mécanique et ses enjeux existentiels propres mais il ne nous coupe pas du monde et nous pousse au contraire à aborder autrui de façon différente, nouvelle. cette épreuve qui relève de l'intime, qui bouleverse le moi profond change pourtant notre vision du monde et de ses habitants : la relation moi-autrui change de pôle. mais cette interaction est réciproque : l'autre me regarde et se comporte différemment. la société possède des codes sociaux qui attribuent une place déterminée à chaque membre de la communauté : ainsi, la veuve, le veuf, les orphelins. il est parfois difficile de s'en rendre compte, mais la communauté qui entoure l'endeuillé n'agit pas de façon naturelle : ses actes et ses paroles sont le fruit d'une éducation, d'une série de conventions apprises. mais il en est de même pour la personne en deuil : notre vécu intime cherche ses 'réponses' en autrui, en ceux qui l'entourent et donc dans les codes sociaux qui lui fournissent un modèle de comportement. en quoi le rapport normalisé à autrui fait partie du vécu intime du deuil ? comment la notion de 'faire son deuil' est vitale en tant qu'elle se fait en présence d'autrui ? de même, quelle place le collectif accorde à l'intime, au sentiment personnel et à sa manifestation ?The challenge of this work is to address bereavement as an existential experience in a contemporary social context - living through the lost of a loved one is an abrupt change in a subject's life. Nevertheless, the subject is part of a collective, located in a society that reacts by regulating the experience of bereavement. Faced with the apparent solitude of mourning, the death of a loved one brings us to question identity as fundamentally relational beings. We focus our reflection on the abrupt change change that comes at the sudden news of the death of a loved one in the course of our existence, and which, as such, represents an abrupt change itself. Journeying through a period of mourning means being faced with the intensity and pointlessness of loss, of which no words can be said at the beginning. Starting from the unspeakable and incommunicable nature of bereavement, we address the question of meaning and of implementing practices in response to this situation of abrupt change.Problematising the expression "to be in mourning" reflects the creativity of the human subject when it is called to be a part of a social, economical, political and cultural environment upon the news of a loss. It is therefore important to emphasise the historical and social aspects of our reflection as it analyses the knowledge basis for bereavement. this epistemological analysis tends to consider bereavement as an "object" appropriate for both thought and practice. The objectives here are therefore normative and affect a singular conception of offering support to those in mourning and to those at the end of life in order that those involved in the issue may become involved in experiential continuity
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Wheeler, Patricia R. "Love On - The Life of a Suicide Survivor: A Performance Autoethnographic Study." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3045.
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Suicide touches the lives of millions of people each year in this country alone, yet conversations about suicide loss and survival after a loss remain taboo and often do not happen. The story I performed for this performance autoethnographic study centers on my life as a survivor of suicide. It provides a starting point for dialog regarding trauma, grief, and suicide loss. The narrative was constructed directly following the sudden death of my father, which had a direct effect on my ability to produce artistic work. The development, staging and performance of the story were altered to account for the situational depression I experienced during my creative process.
I received feedback from the audience on what aspects of my telling were well developed, and what needed further development. I was able to experience the importance of balance in an autoethnographers personal life when writing about trauma and experiencing it directly.
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Hart, M. J. Alexandra. "Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294.
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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science.
The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do.
Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process.
It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact.
The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail.
A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported.
It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact.
On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment.
The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency.
Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches.
Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.
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Marshall, Brenda J. "Silent Grief: Narratives of Bereaved Adult Siblings." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19153.
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This qualitative research project is a narrative inquiry into the lives of four bereaved siblings; one is myself. The purpose of the project was to explore our mutual experiences of loss, look for patterns, and create a forum for continuing our stories in a new way. Identified as a disenfranchised loss (Wray, 2003) adult siblings are often seen as the least impacted family member when a sibling dies. After such a death, the concern is first directed toward the grieving spouse and children and then the deceased’s parents. Adult siblings are often expected to be a source of strength and support for others.
Through in-depth interviews and story telling, three participants shared their reflections of, first, living with and, then, living without beloved siblings. Their stories of loss and love are captured both with words and visually through photographs. My stories are woven throughout the text as I reflect upon my grief journey and ongoing search for meaning.
Findings of this research offer a glimpse into the profound depth of this loss and some of the unique challenges faced by bereaved adult siblings. All participants experienced strained dynamics within families of origin as members grieved the loss differently. Elderly parents, in particular, were hesitant to speak of their deceased child, setting a tone of silence within the family. To help “protect” parents from further grief, participants gradually stopped talking about deceased siblings in their presence. Relationships with surviving siblings were also strained as roles were reformed. For the three women participants, passing years did not lessen the emptiness of the loss. The pain was rekindled with each passing family milestone.
All of us were changed by this experience. Sharing stories with an interested listener created another avenue for meaning making and a new way to honour and memorialize our lost siblings. Each of us moved to new understandings about ourselves and our relationships with our deceased siblings, naming the experience as transformative on many levels. Hopefully this study will serve as support for other grieving adult siblings and contribute to furthering research in grief and bereavement.
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Thakrar, Sulaye. "Men’s narratives and counter-narratives of burn injury healing." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4892.
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Due to medical advances, there has been an increased number of burn survivors, thus creating a dire need for research on burn recovery. As 70% of burn-injured patients are male, it is especially important to examine how men understand healing from a burn injury. One way to explore this is by investigating men’s stories of healing because it is through and by the experiential space of narrative that individuals are provided with the tools to reflect on and find meaning from their experiences of burn injuries. This thesis examined narratives men constructed about healing from a burn injury. Adult men with 0.5 – 30% total body surface area burned were recruited for an in-depth semi-structured interview, two to fifty-two weeks post-injury. Narrative analysis of the transcripts revealed that men principally constructed a dominant narrative that involved wanting to return to a life that was “normal” as soon as possible. I argue that these stories are indicative of a restitution storyline, that is, they follow a plotline in which the men view themselves as being temporarily injured but soon recovered. I then explore how agency, or more specifically, how agentic behaviours facilitate these narratives about men returning to their pre-injury selves. Men also constructed narratives about boredom, grief and regrets at the same time as the restitution narratives. These narratives indicated distress because they were counter to the stories that the men wanted to construct. The discussion contextualizes the men’s restitution narratives in terms of masculine socialization, and considers the role of agency in informing narrative plotlines. Lastly, recommendations to health care providers who treat men that have survived a burn injury are provided.
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Amirfarhad, Negar. "The Search for Meaning: What Do the Narratives of Grieving Individuals Reveal?" Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65458.
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This qualitative research project is a narrative inquiry into the loss experiences of four bereaved individuals who have lost an immediate family member; one of them is myself. In particular, the meanings assigned to the losses and how those meanings impacted the grieving process were explored by listening to in-depth narratives of the participants’ experiences of loss and grief. A narrative methodology was used, based on a constructivist epistemology that describes a human tendency to put events in narrative forms in order to give them a sense of continuity and meaning. Four narratives, along with their respective analysis, were presented in separate chapters, with my own narrative presented as the last narrative chapter.
Of the four of us, two are males: one from Jewish-American and the other from German-Romanian descent, and two are females: both from Persian descent. The four participants ranged from 39 to 71 years of age at the time of the interviews, with the losses occurring 3 to 25 years before the interviews.
Findings of this research reveal the unique and complex grieving processes of the participants. A variety of meanings were assigned to the losses with each meaning having its own possible impact on the course of bereavement. Each participant expressed her/his own personal assumptions about the nature of life, love, suffering, human vulnerabilities, and death stemming from their life experiences and culture. We all expressed in our own unique way that the loss of a special person, a loving bond, and a significant relationship will always remain painful, but their memories, legacies, and love will continue beyond their deaths, which can help us in finding meaningful, productive, and hopeful paths. Hopefully this research project will provide some validation and inspiration for other grieving individuals and contribute to the current understanding of bereavement and grief.
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Fitzpatrick, Sally Annette. "The most beautiful place in the world." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927608.
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Masters Research - Masters of Philosophy (MPhil)A memoir written after the death of the author's daughter, involving a journey to China to retrace her footsteps. The memoir is accompanied by an exegesis which studies similar grief narratives, investigating how grief writers represent the self in relation death and to others and how place becomes a repository for grief.