'If only…': Counterfactual thinking in bereavement
| Autor: | Robert A. Neimeyer, Shani Pitcho-Prelorentzos, Michal Mahat-Shamir |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Counterfactual thinking
050103 clinical psychology media_common.quotation_subject Case vignette 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Meaning (existential) media_common Self 05 social sciences Cognition 030227 psychiatry Clinical Psychology Rumination Tragedy (event) Grief medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology Bereavement |
| Zdroj: | Death Studies. 45:692-701 |
| ISSN: | 1091-7683 0748-1187 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07481187.2019.1679959 |
| Popis: | When grief over the death of a loved one becomes complicated, protracted and circular, ruminative counterfactual thinking in which the bereaved relentlessly but vainly seeks to somehow reverse the tragedy of the loss often plays a contributory role in sustaining the person's suffering. In this article we summarize the growing evidence implicating this cognitive process in interfering with meaning reconstruction following loss, and identify four foci for counterfactual, "if only" cognition, directed at the self, the deceased, relevant others, or the circumstances of the death itself. We then illustrate each with an actual case vignette, along with approaches to resolving, dissolving, mitigating, or redirecting such rumination, and conclude with a general principle of practice for other therapists whose clients struggle with similarly anguished and entrenched counterfactual preoccupations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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