Death, Bereavement, and Mourning
By: Samuel C. Heilman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781351322089; 9781351322072; 9781351322058
Subjects: Death; Congresses; Bereavement; Mort; Congrès; Aspect psychologique; Deuil; Psychological aspects
Description: "An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to redress wrongs in themselves or in the relationships that death has shaken and upset. In both collective and individual responses to the trauma of encountering death, we witness efforts to counter the misfortune and to explain the meaning of the loss, to turn memory into blessing, to reconcile life with death, to regenerate life, and redeem both the bereaved and the dead. Sometimes loss may transform the bereaved in ways that lead to growth and maturity; other times a loss leads to unremitting anger or melancholia. There may be a variety of spiritual expressions that the bereaved experience in their time of loss, but there appears to be some common elements in all of them. Overtime, survivors' feelings are transformed into growing exploration of the spiritual, a profound sense of rebirth, newfound feelings of self-mastery or confidence, and a deeply held conviction that "life goes on."The contributions to this volume are based on a conference held in New York on the first anniversary of September 11, 2001. Contributors include Peter Metcalf, Robert Jay Lifton, Ilana Harlow, Robert A. Neimeyer, Samuel Heilman, and Neil Gillman. This sensitive and heartfelt volume relates specifically to issues of death, bereavement, and mourning in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center, but the applications to other individual and catastrophic events is obvious. The contributions do not simply explore how people deal with bereavement or are psychologically affected by extreme grief: they address how people can try to find meaning in tragedy and loss, and strive to help restore order in the wake of chaos. The multidisciplinary perspectives include those of anthropology, psychology, theology, social work, and art."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction  -- Samuel Heilman; title: chapter 2 Local Heroes  -- Thomas Lynch; title: chapter 3 "A Passion of Grief and Fear Exasperates Us": Death, Bereavement, and Mourning-- What We Have Learned a Year after 9/11  -- Peter Metcalf; title: chapter 4 Shaping Sorrow --; title: Creative Aspects of Public and Private Mourning  -- Ilana Harlow; title: chapter 5 Where are the Dead? Bad Death, the Missing, and the Inability to Mourn  -- Henry Abramovitch; title: chapter 6 The Firefighter, the Ghost, and the Psychologist: Reflections on "The 9/11 Firehouse Project" *  -- Warren Spielberg; title: chapter 7 Grieving Families and the 9/11 Disaster  -- Paul C. Rosenblatt; title: chapter 8 Traumatic Grief and Bereavement Resulting from Terrorism --; title: Israeli and American Perspectives  -- Eliezer Witztum Ruth Malkinson Simon Shimshon Rubin; title: chapter 9 Tragedy and Transformation: Meaning Reconstruction in the Wake of Traumatic Loss  -- Robert A. Neimeyer; title: chapter 10 Coping with Chaos: Jewish Theological and Ritual Resources  -- Neil Gillman; title: chapter 11 From Ground Zero: Thoughts on Apocalyptic Violence and the New Terrorism 1  -- Charles B. Strozier; title: chapter 12 The Apocalyptic Face-Off: The Culture of Death after 9/11  -- Robert Jay Lifton; title: chapter 13 The Aftermath of Death: Collective Reintegration and Dealing with Chaos in Light of the Disaster of September 11 -- Samuel Heilman.