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Mourning and Meaning

NEIMEYER, ROBERT A., PRIGERSON, HOLLY G., DAVIES, BETTY·2002·American Behavioral Scientist
DOI 10.1177/000276402236676
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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
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
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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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