PSYCH218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Miscarriage, Emo

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH218
• Professor: Chris Burris

Document Summary

Week 10 death and the relational level. Relationships also change the experience of death individual death has a radiating effect onto the previous existing relationships. It affects the individuals within the fam unit then affects ppl around the fam. Every person in the fam identifies a different role. Your experience from the family is not the same as anyone else (cid:862)should sorro(cid:449)(cid:863) (cid:862)legiti(cid:373)ized grief(cid:863) Things youre not supposed to do: loss is idiosy(cid:374)(cid:272)rati(cid:272), so . Not openly a(cid:272)k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledged = do(cid:374)"t feel like it is safe/(cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gful for the(cid:373) to ope(cid:374)ly acknowledge their grief. Is it ok for them to greive: recipe for disenfranchisement. If people do(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d this leads to disenfranchisement: prenatal death, still borns, miscarriage, abortions, abortions charge political issue, (cid:862)you (cid:272)a(cid:374) just try agai(cid:374)(cid:863, people die with this in different ways. Japanese ritual carried out to honour the unborn (it is significant: pets. The recurring theme: (cid:862)differe(cid:374)t fro(cid:373) (cid:373)e(cid:863) (griever or the person who died)