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- Title
WHAT IS COMPLICATED GRIEF? A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST PERSPECTIVE.
- Authors
WALTER, TONY
- Abstract
Research into complicated grief assumes that it is a psychological disorder of the grieving individual. This article suggests seven other things that complicated grief may also be: a normalizing construct of psychiatric medicine, an operational requirement of bereavement agencies, a concept by which society as a whole and families can discipline mourning members, a label applied to those who actively resist cultural norms about grief, a product of a society obsessed with risk, and the result of negotiation between various parties in the bereavement field. If complicated grief exists, it is much more multi-faceted than is usually acknowledged.
- Subjects
GRIEF; PSYCHOLOGY; BEREAVEMENT; EMOTIONS; LOSS (Psychology); MENTAL depression; SADNESS; CONSOLATION; RESEARCH
- Publication
Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 2005, Vol 52, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0030-2228
- Publication type
Article