1st Edition
Mourning the Dreams How Parents Create Meaning from Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Early Infant Death
By Claudia Malacrida
Copyright 1998
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Mourning the Dreams is an accessible and moving account of parents’ experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life. Drawing from the sociology of emotions, health research and psychology, her own experience, and a range of qualitative methods, Claudia Malacrida finds that bereaved parents not only grieve their child and its... Read more
Chapter 1 Why is Perinatal Loss So Painful?; Chapter 2 How Perinatal Loss is Experienced; Chapter 3 What Can Go Wrong (Often) Does: Psychological Factors and Perinatal Death; Chapter 4 Silence and Empty Arms: Social Factors in Perinatal Death; Chapter 5 Giving Death; Chapter 6 Creating Meaning, Experiencing Growth; Chapter 7 Research as Therapeutic Process: For Part Icipants and Researcher Alike; Chapter 8 Epilogue;
Biography
Claudia Malacrida
