What Forever Means: An Empirical Existential-Phenomenological Investigation of Maternal Mourning

Brice, Charles W.

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“…What has been strongly emphasized in research in this perspective about the bereaved lived experience are the pain and the loss of meaning of the life-world, and the distinctions that are implied in it by the contexts and circumstances of death, particular aspects of each broken relationship, and the historical horizon (Brice, 1991;Douglas, 2004;DuBose, 1997;Gudmundsdottir, 2009;Gudmundsdottir & Chesla, 2006;Smith, Joseph, & Nair, 2011). By dealing with lived experiences in the world with others, the phenomenological-existential perspective in psychology presents relevant implications for the psychological clinic that welcomes the bereaved.…”

Section: Bereavement and Phenomenological Psychologymentioning

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“…The no recovering is shown relevantly in the phenomenological studies on grief (Brice, 1991;Douglas, 2004;DuBose, 1997;Freitas & Michel, 2014;Gudmundsdottir, 2009;Gudmundsdottir & Chesla, 2006;Smith et al, 2011), which point out that the bereaved lived experiences, in general, differ from theories that define them through stages, tasks, and idealizations about what would be grief. No recovering is understood, therefore, as an inability to return to a previous or predetermined mode, which ignores or imposes a specific meaning of the thou in the existence of the bereaved.…”

Section: The Phenomenological Perspective Of Mourning and The Clinicamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The bereaved experiences (as we can see from national and international works) point to the loss of life-world meanings, intense experiences of emotional and physical pain, rearrangement of values before death and life, reorganization of relationships, and suffering before cultural impossibility of sharing pain (Brice, 1991;Douglas, 2004;DuBose, 1997;Freitas & Michel, 2014;Gudmundsdottir, 2009;Gudmundsdottir & Chesla, 2006;Smith et al, 2011).…”

Section: The Phenomenological Perspective Of Mourning and The Clinicamentioning

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Luto, pathos e clínica: uma leitura fenomenológica

Freitas

2018

Psicol. USP

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Abstract:The comprehension of bereavement has undergone profound changes in its theoretical and practical aspects, with relevant repercussions in the recent version of DSM. Not only the cultural context but also the clinical psychology has profoundly impacted its understanding. Phenomenological-existential psychology studies the phenomena as lived experiences in the world, contributing with the thought on the experiential and pathic character of bereavement. This study aims to present bereavement in this perspective, and its implications for clinical psychology. When we submit the phenomenon of bereavement to epoché, we find evidence of intersubjectivity. It is an experience that begins with the abrupt suppression of the other as corporeality, which breaks the habitual meanings of the life-world. In the face of meaning suspension, it is proposed that the clinical setting allows the resumption and re-signification of the interrupted narratives, against a new life-world opened on the outside of the horizon of theoretical predeterminations.

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Section: Bereavement and Phenomenological Psychologymentioning

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Section: The Phenomenological Perspective Of Mourning and The Clinicamentioning

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Section: The Phenomenological Perspective Of Mourning and The Clinicamentioning

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Luto, pathos e clínica: uma leitura fenomenológica

Freitas

2018

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“…A literatura aponta que o luto é uma reação ao rompimento irreversível de um vínculo significativo (Brice, 1991;Freitas, 2013;Kovács, 1992;Parkes, 1998). A vivência do luto está vinculada à qualidade da relação que havia com o morto e às circunstâncias que o levaram a morte.…”

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“…Com a supressão do outro, há uma perda de sentido do mundo-da-vida com exigência de nova significação. A vivência do luto impõe, por conseguinte, novas formas de ser-no-mundo, uma vez que aquelas anteriormente dadas não podem ser vividas novamente, e assim não haveria uma exigência de ressignificação do luto, mas da relação com aquele que morreu (Brice, 1991, Freitas, 2013. Como não é passível de resolução, essa vivência é assumida como uma nova condição existencial: "Do ponto de vista fenomenológico-existencial não há resolução ou substituição possível, como defende a psicologia clássica, mas possibilidades de reconfiguração de um campo de coexistência, do mundo vivido, a partir dessa ausência-presente do outro, do 'tu' em 'mim'" (Freitas, 2013, p.104).…”

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A maior dor do mundo: o luto materno em uma perspectiva fenomenológica

Freitas¹,

Michel²

2014

Psicol. estud.

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RESUMO.O presente trabalho busca refletir sobre a vivência do luto materno na sociedade brasileira contemporânea, a partir da perspectiva fenomenológico-existencial. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa com três mães enlutadas. Utilizou-se o método fenomenológico de entrevistas, com uso de pergunta disparadora. A análise dos dados seguiu os quatro passos metodológicos de Giorgi. O relato das mães evidenciou diferentes temáticas, descritas por meio de dez elementos constituintes da vivência de luto materno, a saber: dor; perda de um modo de existir; espiritualidade; culpa; perda do sentido do mundo-da-vida; vontade de morrer; fragmentação dos laços afetivos; engajamento em projetos relacionados ao filho; perpetuação da memória do filho; estreitamento de laços com pessoas significativas para o morto. Os resultados obtidos na pesquisa indicam que, embora o luto se modifique ao longo do tempo, a perda de um filho jamais é superada, sendo este sofrimento compreendido não mais como uma condição patológica, mas como especificidades a serem compreendidas. Palavras-chave:Luto; luto materno; psicologia fenomenológica. THE BIGGEST PAIN IN THE WORLD: THE MOTHER´S MOURNING FROM A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVEABSTRACT. This paper aims to reflect on the experience of grieving mothers in contemporary Brazilian society from an existential-phenomenological perspective. We performed a qualitative study with three mourning mothers, using the phenomenological interview method with a starter question. Analysis of the data followed Giorgi's four methodological steps. The reports of the mothers showed different themes, described by ten constituents of the grieving´s mother experience, as following: Pain, Loss of a way of being, Spirituality, Guilt, Loss of life-world´s sense, Will to die, Fragmentation of affective bonds, Engagement in projects related to the child, Perpetuation of the memory of the son, Strenghtening of ties with a deceased´s significant others. The results indicate that although the grief changes over time, mothers never fully recover from their loss. This leads us to understand the mothers' suffering as a non-pathological condition but with specific features to be understood.Keywords: Grief; maternal mourning; phenomenological psychology. EL DOLOR MÁS GRANDE EN EL MUNDO: EL LUTO MATERNO EN UNA PERSPECTIVA FENOMENOLÓGICARESUMEN. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo reflexionar sobre la experiencia del luto materno en la sociedad brasileña contemporánea, desde la perspectiva fenomenológico-existencial. Se realizó una investigación cualitativa con tres madres enlutadas. Se utilizó el método fenomenológico de entrevistas con una pregunta disparadora. El análisis de los datos siguió los cuatro pasos metodológicos de Giorgi. El relato de las madres señaló diferentes temáticas, descriptas por diez componentes constituyentes de la experiencia de luto materno, siendo: Dolor, Pérdida de un modo de existir, Espiritualidad, Culpa, Pérdida del sentido del mundo-de-la-vida, Deseo de morir, Fragmentación de lazos afectivos, Participa...

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Paradoxes of Maternal Mourning

Brice

1991

Psychiatry

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It has been customary to conceptualize mourning as a phasic or stage phenomenon (Lindemann 1944; Parkes 1972; Bowlby 1980; Knapp 1986). Such a conceptualization has proved to be of tremendous didactic value, especially in terms of succinctly organizing and communicating the major affects, behaviors, and reactions of mourning. It is, however, my belief, based upon clinical experience with many forms of bereavement, that the phenomenon of mourning is not comprised of clearly delineated stages and phases. I have come to conceptualize the phenomenon of mourning the death of a loved person as involving the bereaved's struggle with a series of more or less unresolvable paradoxes rather than as a progression through stages that possess relatively distinct and predictable beginning and ending points. The specific paradoxes encountered by a bereaved person differ, of course, in accordance with the relationship that was lost (mother, father, spouse, child, or sibling), the developmental stage of the bereaved (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, or maturity), the type of death (sudden or prolonged), and the cause of death (illness, murder, suicide, or accident). In this paper, I will address those paradoxes that seem specific to maternal mourning - that is, to mothers who are mourning the death of a child.

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What Forever Means: An Empirical Existential-Phenomenological Investigation of Maternal Mourning

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Luto, pathos e clínica: uma leitura fenomenológica

Luto, pathos e clínica: uma leitura fenomenológica

A maior dor do mundo: o luto materno em uma perspectiva fenomenológica

Paradoxes of Maternal Mourning

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