Pub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15325029608415460
L. Range
Abstract Although bereavement from suicide shares a common core of experience with other bereavement, there are unique features as well. These include stigma, feelings of blame and personal responsibility, other unusually strong emotional reactions, an exacerbated search for meaning, and deception about the cause of death. Bereaved persons also are misunderstood, and they face inappropriate comforting, which includes being asked intrusive questions, receiving sympathy from those who feel uncomfortable, and being offered diminished social support. Research on suicidal bereavement is often limited by its retrospective nature, biased respondents, noncomparable control groups, idiosyncratic dependent measures, and failure to examine family factors. These shortcomings are only now beginning to be addressed. Therapists for suicidally bereaved individuals should assess for suicide and refrain from overly ambitious goals and should consider referral to self-help groups that comprise individuals who have had simil...
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Pub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15325029608415456
M. Uematsu
Abstract My own personal experience of loss brought on by the death of a loved one, plus the account-making studies by Harvey et al. (1990), lead me to believe that writing can be a beneficial way for those experiencing grief to find voice and regain a sense of coherency by recording the variety of sweeping emotions that follow in the wake of great loss. Although confiding to close others can be particularly helpful, those in grief may find that writing can offer certain advantages. Writing not only allows the mourner to compose a record of the story, but it also lets the mourner gain a certain amount of distance from the event by placing one's self within the context, using either first, second, or third person. Writing can be a powerful tool: One can re-collect the fragmentation and track the self through an unfolding story. Journal entries, essays, or letters to the deceased are written records, recorded accounts that can be referred to after a long passage of time, giving one the chance to reread thos...
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