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

Contributor(s): Neimeyer, Robert A, 1954-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 359 pages ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1557987424Other title: Meaning reconstruction and the experience of lossSubject(s): Loss (Psychology) | Meaning (Psychology) | Grief | Bereavement -- Psychological aspects | Death -- Psychological aspectsLOC classification: BF575.D35 | M43 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Beyond decathexis: toward a new psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of mourning / George Hagman -- Relearning the world : making and finding meanings / Thomas Attig -- Meaning making in the dual process model of coping with bereavement / Margaret S. Stroebe and Henk Schut -- The inner representation of the dead child in the psychic and social narratives of bereaved parents / Dennis Klass -- Family construction of meaning / Janice Winchester Nadeau -- The death of a child with a developmental disability / Elizabeth Moulton Milo -- The tormented and the transformed: understanding responses to loss and trauma / Christopher G. Davis -- Posttraumatic growth: the positive lessons of loss / Lawrence G. Calhoun and Richard G. Tedeschi -- Spiritual resources following a partner's death from AIDS / T. Anne Richards -- Positive outcomes of losing a loved one / Thomas T. Frantz, Megan M. Farrell, and Barbara C. Trolley -- Shattered beliefs: reconstituting the self of the trauma counselor / Marla J. Arvay -- Embracing their memory: the construction of accounts of loss and hope / John H. Harvey, Heather R. Carlson, Tamara M. Huff, and Melinda A. Green -- Research as therapy: the power of narrative to effect change / Bronna D. Romanoff -- The language of loss: grief therapy as a process of meaning reconstruction / Robert A. Neimeyer -- Construing stress: a constructivist therapeutic approach to posttraumatic stress reactions / Kenneth W. Sewell and Amy M. Williams -- Trauma, grief, and surviving childhood sexual abuse / Stephen J. Fleming and Sheri Kathleen Bélanger -- Videography: re-storying the lives of clients facing terminal illness / Sandra A. Rigazio-DiGilio.
Summary: Debunking the commonly held perception that bereavement consists of an invariant sequence of stages, this book demonstrates that highly individual processes of "meaning making" are actually at the heart of grief dynamics. This groundbreaking volume exposes meaning reconstruction in response to loss as the central process in grieving. Authors stress the fundamental necessity for a healthy role of continued symbolic bonds as well as an appreciation of life-enhancing growth as one integrates the lessons of loss.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Beyond decathexis: toward a new psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of mourning / George Hagman -- Relearning the world : making and finding meanings / Thomas Attig -- Meaning making in the dual process model of coping with bereavement / Margaret S. Stroebe and Henk Schut -- The inner representation of the dead child in the psychic and social narratives of bereaved parents / Dennis Klass -- Family construction of meaning / Janice Winchester Nadeau -- The death of a child with a developmental disability / Elizabeth Moulton Milo -- The tormented and the transformed: understanding responses to loss and trauma / Christopher G. Davis -- Posttraumatic growth: the positive lessons of loss / Lawrence G. Calhoun and Richard G. Tedeschi -- Spiritual resources following a partner's death from AIDS / T. Anne Richards -- Positive outcomes of losing a loved one / Thomas T. Frantz, Megan M. Farrell, and Barbara C. Trolley -- Shattered beliefs: reconstituting the self of the trauma counselor / Marla J. Arvay -- Embracing their memory: the construction of accounts of loss and hope / John H. Harvey, Heather R. Carlson, Tamara M. Huff, and Melinda A. Green -- Research as therapy: the power of narrative to effect change / Bronna D. Romanoff -- The language of loss: grief therapy as a process of meaning reconstruction / Robert A. Neimeyer -- Construing stress: a constructivist therapeutic approach to posttraumatic stress reactions / Kenneth W. Sewell and Amy M. Williams -- Trauma, grief, and surviving childhood sexual abuse / Stephen J. Fleming and Sheri Kathleen Bélanger -- Videography: re-storying the lives of clients facing terminal illness / Sandra A. Rigazio-DiGilio.

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

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