Research Catalog

Title

Parent grief : narratives of loss and relationship / written by Paul C. Rosenblatt.

Author

Rosenblatt, Paul C.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Brunner-Mazel, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xv, 252 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Explores what couple and individual stories say and do not say about the child's dying and death and about parent grief. The author uses narratives as his tool for the introduction and exploration of the many facets of parental grief.

Series Statement

Series in death, dying, and bereavement, 1091-5427

Uniform Title

Series in death, dying, and bereavement

Subject

• Grief
• Bereavement > Psychological aspects
• Children > Death > Psychological aspects
• Children > Death > Psychological aspects > Case studies
• Loss (Psychology)
• Bereavement
• Children
• Death
• Grief
• Bereavement
• Child
• Death
• Parents > psychology
• grief
• mourning
• children (people by age group)
• deaths
• Children
• Bereavement > Psychological aspects
• Children > Death > Psychological aspects
• Parental grief

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Narratives of Bereaved Parents -- Domains of Bereaved Parent Narrative -- Common Domains -- Areas that Never or Hardly Ever Become a Domain -- Relations among Common Domains -- What Is Gained from Organizing Narratives in Domains -- What Can Be Gained by Studying Bereaved Parent Narrative -- What Parents Say Is Rooted in Culture and Community -- Parent Grief Is Relational -- The Language of Grief Theories -- Studying Language Using Language -- Coming to a Couple Language about the Death -- Immediate Pressure to Construct New Realities -- Numbness and Having No Reality to Draw On -- Shared Couple Narratives -- Searching for What Is True and Right -- Marital Conversation about the Death -- Narratives of Couples Who Had Talked a Lot -- The Story of Dying and Death -- Every Parent Had a Story of the Death -- Common Contextual Elements -- Premonitions and Omens -- The Stories Locate Events in Time -- The Stories Locate Events in Place and Space -- Characterizing the Child -- Parents as Players -- The Social Setting -- The Story of the Dying Process -- Dying as a Matter of Learning and Awareness -- Metaphors in Talk about the Dying Process -- Making Sense of the Actions and Words of Physicians -- Morality and Agency in Dying -- The End of Life -- Last Contact -- Last Minutes of the Dying Child -- Last Words -- The Moment of Death -- Reconstructing the Dying and Death -- Naming the Cause of Death -- What Ifs -- Metaphors for Death -- Death Rituals -- Baptism -- Autopsy -- Police Inquiry -- Organ Donation.

ISBN

• 1583910336
• 9781583910337
• 1583910344
• 9781583910344

LCCN

99053853

OCLC

• ocm42736301
• 42736301
• SCSB-1031311

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library