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This new book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do. Presenting data from several populations, 22 authors - among the most respected in their fields - demonstrate that the health resolution of grief enables one to maintain a continuing bond with the deceased. Despite cultural disapproval and lack of validation by professionals, survivors find places for the dead in their on-going lives and even in their communities. Such bonds are not denial: the deceased can provide resources for enriched functioning in the present. Chapters examine widows and widowers, bereaved children, parents and siblings, and a population previously excluded from bereavement research: adoptees and their birth parents. Bereavement in Japanese culture is also discussed, as are meanings and implications of this new model of grief. Opening new areas of research and scholarly dialogue, this work provides the basis for significant developments in clinical practice in the field.
| ISBN | 1560323396 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781560323396
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 520 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc | | Published in | Washington | | Imprint | Taylor & Francis Inc | | Series ISSN | 0275-351 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Series in Death Education, Aging, & Health Care | | Publication date | 22 Feb 1996 | | Height (mm) | 230 | | Library of Congress | BF575.G7C6 | | Width (mm) | 158 | | DEWEY | 155.937 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 260 | |
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| | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Contributors | | | | | | Preface | | | | Ch. 1 | | Introduction: What's the Problem? by Phyllis R. Silverman and Dennis Klass | | 3 | | Ch. 2 | | Broken Hearts or Broken Bonds? by Margaret Stroebe and Mary Gergen and Kenneth Gergen and Wolfgang Stroebe | | 31 | | Ch. 3 | | Grief That Does Not End by Paul C. Rosenblatt | | 45 | | Ch. 4 | | Grief in an Eastern Culture: Japanese Ancestor Worship by Dennis Klass | | 59 | | Ch. 5 | | Children's Construction of Their Dead Parents by Phyllis R. Silverman and Steven L. Nickman | | 73 | | Ch. 6 | | Bereaved Children's Changing Relationships with the Deceased by Claude L. Normand and Phyllis R. Silverman and Steven L. Nickman | | 87 | | Ch. 7 | | Remembering a Parent Who Has Died: A Developmental Perspective by Betty C. Buchsbaum | | 113 | | Ch. 8 | | Relationship and Heritage: Manifestations of Ongoing Attachment Following Father Death by Kirsten Tyson-Rawson | | 125 | | Ch. 9 | | Widowhood and Husband Sanctification by Helena Znaniecka Lopata | | 149 | | Ch. 10 | | Remarriage of Widowed Persons: A Triadic Relationship by Miriam S. Moss and Sidney Z. Moss | | 163 | | Ch. 11 | | Memories of the Death and Life of a Spouse: The Role of Images and Sense of Presence in Grief by Roberta Dew Conant | | 179 | | Ch. 12 | | The Deceased Child in the Psychic and Social Worlds of Bereaved Parents During the Resolution of Grief by Dennis Klass | | 199 | | Ch. 13 | | The Wounded Family: Bereaved Parents and the Impact of Adult Child Loss by Simon Shimshon Rubin | | 217 | | Ch. 14 | | Basic Constructs of a Theory of Adolescent Sibling Bereavement by Nancy Hogan and Lydia DeSantis | | 235 | | Ch. 15 | | Retroactive Loss in Adopted Persons by Steven Nickman | | 257 | | Ch. 16 | | Grief and the Birth Origin Fantasies of Adopted Women by Susan Miller-Havens | | 273 | | | More... | | |
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