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18652067

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-24
pubmed:abstractText
Thanatologists, as Balk recently commented (Balk, 2004), have been saying that there is no recovery from bereavement, or that we should not speak of bereavement as leading to a recovery. The term recovery has a high level of plasticity and can be shaped to fit diverse meanings, including contradictory meanings. We will sort our way through some of these difficulties, and survey some of the meanings of recovery and, particularly, no recovery. The primary approach takes recovery to be the term of the normative organization and aim of the human response to death. There are social norms, a diversity of norms that respond to the disruption of life imposed by death. So, if recovery is the normative term, no recovery, as a widespread sociocultural reality, suggests that there may be no norms adequate, robust enough, or fitting to govern the human response to death. Much of this article explores the implications of the meaning of no recovery as the loss of a functioning normative power to take care of the disruption caused by death. A number of other possible meanings of the term no recovery are also considered, most importantly, the possibility that no recovery means that mourning is open ended, that death and the deceased are not integrated in life, and that recovery is not the normative aim of mourning. Finally, a clinical case and a hypothesis are presented that suggest that the idea of recovery has been based on the pleasure principle; an alternative conceptualization of mourning that is based on what Freud called the death principle is considered.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
T
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0748-1187
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
HSR
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
74-83
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
What is "no recovery?".
pubmed:affiliation
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comment