The Politics of Mourning: Grief Management in Cross-cultural FictionFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2004 - 239 Seiten As international terrorism has become a commonplace phenomenon, a growing body of multiethnic short fiction has turned to depictions of loss and mourning. Characters in short stories and novellas deal with grief in ways that are appropriate to their gender as well as cultural and religious background. Indeed, as Western societies have become increasingly pluralistic, mortuary practices have altered. Mental health professionals who deal with bereaved individuals are becoming increasingly aware of the need to alter their clinical practices in keeping with the cultural and ethnic background of the patients they treat. Yet few have considered the use of global grief pathographies to achieve healing after mass loss. noncanonical, might become a part of the counseling techniques employed by psychotherapists to enable patients to identify with examples of literary bereavement and, through analysis of the situations described, might find healing. |
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Grief and Grief Management Definitions and History from Freud to Abraham and Torok | 40 |
The Stages of Grieving and the Tasks of Mourning in Multicultural Grief Pathographies | 66 |
Grief Therapy Across CulturesPart 1 Gender Differences in Mourning | 99 |
Grief Therapy Across CulturesPart 2 ReligioCultural Expectations Regarding Loss and Grief | 139 |
Measuring Loss Space Time Format and Closure in Grief Pathographies | 188 |
Conclusion | 220 |
Notes | 225 |
Bibliography | 227 |
Index | 234 |
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Seite 200 - The initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and every thing like totality is at once destroyed.
Seite 44 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Seite 71 - She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.
Seite 13 - The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on September 11, 2001, would have immediate and fundamental effects on the United States and the world.
Seite 86 - ... the man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured. Among them lay a collar and tie, as if they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale crescent in the dust.
Seite 69 - Dr Ranganathan, who has also resisted his relatives and returned to Montreal and to his job, alone. He says, whom better to talk with than other relatives? We've been melted down and recast as a new tribe. He calls me twice a week from Montreal. Every Wednesday night and every Saturday afternoon. He is changing jobs, going to Ottawa. But Ottawa is over a hundred miles away, and he is forced to drive two hundred and twenty miles a day. He can't bring himself to sell his house. The house is a temple,...
Seite 72 - Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers [123] calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body.
Seite 43 - The patient represents his ego to us as worthless, incapable of any achievement and morally despicable; he reproaches himself, vilifies himself and expects to be cast out and punished.
Seite 113 - ... excuse me for saying this — but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory.