The language of loss: Grief therapy as a process of meaning reconstruction.

In psychotherapy, ambivalence may be conceptualized as a conflict between two distinct motivations: one that is favorable to change (pro-change) and another that favors the maintenance of a problematic pattern (pro status quo). Previous studies identified two processes by which clients resolve this conflict: imposing the innovative part and silencing the problematic one (dominance), and establishing negotiations between the innovative and the pro status quo parts (negotiation). The present exploratory study examined ambivalence resolution in a sample of clients diagnosed with complicated grief. Results revealed that, in recovered cases, negotiation increases and dominance decreases from the beginning until the middle sessions of therapy and the opposite tendency is observed from the middle to the final sessions. Unchanged cases reveal an overall high proportion of dominance and an overall low proportion of negotiation. These results are partially divergent from those reported in previous studies with samples of clients diagnosed with major depression.

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The Effect of Integrated Approach Grief Therapy Program of Dual Process and Meaning Reconstruction

The Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21 ◽

10.22143/hss21.12.6.76 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 1065-1080

Author(s):

Junseok Yang

Keyword(s):

Integrated Approach ◽

Dual Process ◽

Meaning Reconstruction ◽

Therapy Program ◽

Grief Therapy

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Grief Therapy? First, Do No Harm

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1097-8690(12)70714-x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 45 (16) ◽

pp. 28

Author(s):

BETSY BATES FREED

Keyword(s):

Do No Harm ◽

Grief Therapy

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Israeli mothers’ meaning reconstruction in the aftermath of homicide.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry ◽

10.1037/ort0000089 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 86 (4) ◽

pp. 467-475 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Michal Mahat-Shamir ◽

Ronit D. Leichtentritt

Keyword(s):

Meaning Reconstruction

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STORYTELLING AND MEANING RECONSTRUCTION: A METAPHORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies ◽

10.25159/1016-8427/1614 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 159-169

Author(s):

M L Mojapelo

Keyword(s):

Personal Development ◽

Real Life ◽

Human Existence ◽

Meaning Reconstruction ◽

Changing Patterns ◽

The Subject ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

Storytelling consists of an interaction between a narrator and a listener, both of whom assign meaning to the story as a whole and its component parts. The meaning assigned to the narrative changes over time under the influence of the recipient‟s changing precepts and perceptions which seem to be simplistic in infancy and more nuanced with age. It becomes more philosophical in that themes touching on the more profound questions of human existence tend to become more prominently discernible as the subject moves into the more reflective or summative phases of his or her existence. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the metaphorical character of a story, as reflected in changing patterns of meaning assigned to the narrative in the course of the subjective receiver‟s passage through the various stages of life. This was done by analysing meaning, from a particular storytelling session, at different stages of a listener‟s personal development. Meaning starts as literal and evolves through re-interpretation to abstract and deeper levels towards application in real life.

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