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This innovative volume examines grief and bereavement studies through a phenomenological lens. It draws on perspectives from philosophy, psychology and sociocultural studies to focus on the experiential dimension of grief, moving beyond understanding from a purely mental health and psychiatry perspective.
List of contents
PART 1: Phenomenology and its application to grief and bereavement 1 Grief, melancholy, and depression: an existential phenomenology of reactions to transience 2 What is longing? An existential-phenomenological investigation 3 Grief, commitment and the sense of community 4 Distorted space, unmoving time-aesthetic practices in bereavement 5 Grief and the photograph: a phenomenology of captured time and its resonances with death 6 The interpersonal and social dimensions of emotion regulation in grief PART 2: The normative mediation of experiences of loss 7 Continuing bonds in the cultural, existential, and phenomenological study of grief 8 Poetic representations of parental grief 9 Grieving as relearning the world is inherently social 10 Grief dynamics and gendered expectations on expressions of grief 11 The oughtness of grief: ontological, cultural and existential perspectives 12 From ineffability and cultural taboo to meaning: making sense of sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of deceased loved ones PART 3: Social frameworks of grief 13 Collective grief: mourning rituals, politics and memorial sites 14 "A grief more deep than me"-on ecological grief 15 Finding solace in nature: a protestant/secular sensibility?
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About the author
Allan Køster is Senior Researcher at the National Center for Grief, Denmark, and Research Fellow at Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark.
Ester Holte Kofod is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark.
Summary
This innovative volume examines grief and bereavement studies through a phenomenological lens. It draws on perspectives from philosophy, psychology and sociocultural studies to focus on the experiential dimension of grief, moving beyond understanding from a purely mental health and psychiatry perspective.
