Searching for the meaning of meaning: Grief therapy and the process of reconstruction

Searching for the meaning of meaning: Grief therapy and the process of reconstruction

Neimeyer RA

Death Studies

2000

Grief; Death; Counseling; Time; bereavement; knowledge; Meaning

A comprehensive quantitative review of published randomized controlled outcome studies of grief counseling and therapy suggests that such interventions are typically ineffective, and perhaps even deleterious, at least for persons experiences a normal bereavement. On the other hand, there is some evidence that grief therapy is more beneficial and safer for those who have been traumatically bereaved. Beginning with this sobering appraisal, this article considers the findings of C. G. Davis, C. B. Wortman, D. R. Lehman, and R. C. Silver (this issue) and their implications for a meaning reconstruction approach to grief therapy, arguing that an expanded conception of meaning is necessary to provide a stronger basis for clinical intervention.

2000

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