A Phenomenological Account of Grief and Loss

Aletheia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Goska
Keyword(s):  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Phenomenological Account

Helping Kids Grow Through Grief and Loss

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Hastings
Keyword(s):  
Grief And Loss

Red Eyes

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-293
Author(s):  
Jasmine Thombs
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Alliance ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Maternal Deprivation ◽  
Severe Reaction ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Internal Working Model ◽  
Internal Working ◽  
Threatening Condition ◽  
Sight Loss ◽  
Red Eyes

This vignette illustrates how an individual with a complex pathology can present with a sight-threatening condition that appears to resist medical treatment in some measure if the psychological component is ignored. The case exemplifies the way in which therapeutic intervention can help in the recovery from a sightthreatening condition and from the underlying trauma associated with it. It is recognised that people affected by sight-threatening conditions will understandably experience very strong and at times overwhelming feelings related to grief and loss. In this case, the possibility of sight loss created a severe reaction of panic and confusion, and disrupted cognitive functions. These problems were often compounded by symptoms including anger, disassociation, apathy, and depression. This vignette showed how Bowlby's concepts of attachment and loss, and maternal deprivation, helped in the therapeutic alliance. The understanding of the client's internal working model was fundamental to the ongoing therapeutic process that allowed her to heal.

scholarly journals Grief, disorientation, and futurity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Mehmel
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense ◽  
Phenomenological Account ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper seeks to develop a phenomenological account of the disorientation of grief, specifically the relationship between disorientation and the breakdown in practical self-understanding at the heart of grief. I argue that this breakdown cannot be sufficiently understood as a breakdown of formerly shared practices and habitual patterns of navigating lived-in space that leaves the bereaved individual at a loss as to how to go on. Examining the experience of losing a loved person and a loved person-to-be, I instead propose that this breakdown should be understood primarily in relation to a distinctive kind of futurity operative in disorientation, irrespective of the extent to which there is a breakdown of formerly shared practices and habitual patterns of navigating lived-in space. Drawing on the resources afforded by Heidegger’s phenomenology, I argue that it is a core characteristic of the experience of disorientation in grief that the grieving person can no longer meaningfully press ahead into a specific futural self. This view comes with certain advantages over existing accounts of the temporality of grief for making sense of the disorientated relationship to futurity, which the appeal to Heideggerian resources makes possible.

The Pathogenesis of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia: A Clinical–Phenomenological Account

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mads Gram Henriksen ◽  
Andrea Raballo ◽  
Josef Parnas
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Verbal Hallucinations ◽  
Phenomenological Account

Gender as Lived Time: Reading The Second Sex for a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporality

Hypatia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan M. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Sexual Objectification ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Phenomenological Account ◽  
Time Reading ◽  
Feminist Phenomenology ◽  
Lived Time

This article suggests that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex offers an important contribution to a feminist phenomenology of temporality. In contrast to readings of The Second Sex that focus on the notion of “becoming” as the main claim about the relation between “woman” and time, this article suggests that Beauvoir's discussion of temporality in volume II of The Second Sex shows that Beauvoir understands the temporality of waiting, or a passive present, to be an underlying structure of women's existence and subordination. Accordingly, I argue that Beauvoir does not see “woman” as a mere becoming, as that which unfolds in time, but instead understands becoming a woman to be realized as lived time. As such, Beauvoir's account shows that gender and temporality are deeply entangled, and thus she challenges the classic phenomenological account of temporality as a general, given structure of human existence. More specifically, I argue that her account shows how a particular experience of time is an underlying structure of sexual objectification, a claim that expands on the feminist phenomenological claim that a particular relation to space becomes a way in which women take up and negotiate their own subordination and objectification.

Ten theses on the reality of video-chat: A phenomenological account

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-224
Author(s):  
Christian Ferencz-Flatz
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Public ◽  
Video Chat ◽  
Phenomenological Account

Abstract The following paper addresses the experience of reality in video-calls. To this extent, it first draws from Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological reflections that connect the question of reality with that of interaction and that of intersubjective communication. These reflections set the larger theoretical framework for sketching out ten theses with regard to the specific case of video-calls. To this extent it addresses issues like the public-private divide, the specific image-form of contemporary video-calls, the mutual intersubjective relations they involve, as well as their specific spatiality and temporality.

Counselling Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Use of Narrative Therapy

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Wark
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Severe Intellectual Disability ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

This article uses a descriptive case study design to examine the potential of narrative therapy as a direct intervention for adults with moderate-to-severe intellectual disabilities, autism and/or severe communication limitations. Archival clinical data on four individuals who received a form of social constructionist narrative therapy are examined for goal attainment. The data were analysed qualitatively with specific input from individuals, their families and carers. Findings indicate improvements in quality of life through reductions in situational and environmental anxieties, and in coping with grief and loss. The results suggest that narrative therapy techniques can be beneficial in assisting individuals with severe intellectual disability to achieve meaningful and persistent improvements in their life.

Lesbian Grief and Loss Issues in the Coming Out Process

1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 175-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Grief And Loss
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