Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner ICQI 2022 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award In Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love Spousal Loss and Resilience Reinekke Lengelle uses her abilities as a researcher poet and professor of therapeutic writing to tell a heartfelt and fearless story about her grief after the death of her spouse and the year and a half following his diagnosis illness and passing. This book powerfully demonstrates that writing can be a companion in bereavement. It uses and explains the latest research on coming to terms with spousal loss without being prescriptive. Integrated with this contemporary research are stories poetry and reflections on writing as a therapeutic process. The author unflinchingly explores a number of themes that are underrepresented in existing resources: how one deals with anger associated with loss what a healthy response might be to unfinished business with the deceased continuing conversations with the beloved (even for agnostics and atheists) ongoing sexual desire and secondary losses. As a rare book where an author successfully combines a personal story heart - rending poetry up - to - date research on grief and an evocative exploration of taboo topics in the context of widowhood Writing the Self in Bereavement is uniquely valuable for those grieving a spouse or other loved one those supporting others in bereavement and those interested in the healing power of poetry and life writing. Researchers on death and dying grief counsellors and autoethnographers will also benefit from reading this resonant resource on love and loss.
Title: Writing The Self In Bereavement A Story Of Love Spousal Loss And Resilience
Author(s): Lengelle Reinekke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367643348
Pages: 236 Pages
Publication Date: 12/30/2020
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Category: Clinical Psychology