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Mourning and Meaning

NEIMEYER, ROBERT A., PRIGERSON, HOLLY G., DAVIES, BETTY·2002·American Behavioral Scientist

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Viewed in an expanded frame, the phenomena of grief and bereavement call for analysis in sociological, psychological, and psychiatric terms. In this article, the authors argue that a common theme in these accounts is that of the meaning of loss as expressed in both individual and collective attempts at adaptation. At a societal level, communal rituals, discursive practices, and local cultures provide resources for integrating the significance of loss for survivors and regulating the emotional chaos of bereavement. At an individual and interpersonal level, survivors struggle to assimilate the loss into their existing self-narratives, which are sometimes profoundly challenged by traumatic bereavement. Complicated grief can therefore be viewed as the inability to reconstruct a meaningful personal reality, an outcome to which individuals with insecure working models of self and relationships are especially vulnerable. Nonetheless, evidence suggests that grief can prompt personal growth as well as despair, augmenting rather than only reducing the survivor's sense of meaning.

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Authors: NEIMEYER, R. A., PRIGERSON, H. G., & DAVIES, B.
Affiliations: University of Memphis (US)
Yale University (US)
University of California, San Francisco (US)
ORCID: NEIMEYER, ROBERT A.
PRIGERSON, HOLLY G.
DAVIES, BETTY
Venue: American Behavioral Scientist
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2002-10
Volume: 46
Issue: 2
Pages: 235-251
ISSN: 0002-7642 (ISSN-L)
1552-3381
DOI: 10.1177/000276402236676
OpenAlex: W2149637757
Cited by: 373
References: 56
Citations by year: 2026: 10 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 23 · 2012: 19
FWCI: 11.96
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: American Behavioral Scientist (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Keywords: grief, bereavement, meaning of loss, complicated grief, traumatic bereavement, self-narrative, collective ritual, discursive practices, personal growth, despair, adaptation to loss

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