KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Emotional Problems After Traumatic Bereavement: Nature, correlates, and treatment
Traumatic bereavement refers to the sudden, unexpected death of a loved one under circumstances that are unnatural and traumatizing. Examples are losses due to traffic accidents, terrorist attacks, suicide, and homicide. Traumatic losses can lead to severe depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and prolonged grief disorder (PGD).
Rising from Shattered Lives: Psychotherapy and Existential Crisis
Political and social events can affect individuals profoundly, revolutionizing their lives in such a way that their entire existence is in question, not just physically, but also emotionally, mentally, socially, culturally and spiritually. Such existential shattering is most obvious in the stories of refugees and survivors of war.
Attachment and Loss: From Practice to Theory and Back Again
Gatherings like this one offer abundant opportunities to learn, to share, and to reflect on what we have come to understand about grief, loss, and the work of providing support to those affected by painful life changes. They also provide a forum for discussion of the limitations of what we know –
Intervening in Meaning: New Directions in Grief Therapy
Viewed from a constructivist perspective, a central process in grieving is the attempt to reaffirm or reconstruct a world of meaning that has been challenged by loss. As research with bereaved young people, parents and older adults indicates, both natural and violent death losses can leave mourners struggling to process the event story of the death
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
Dr Sheldon Solomon PHD
The uniquely human fear of death has a pervasive effect on human beings' thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Humans manage the terror of death by adhering to culturally constructed beliefs about reality that provide a sense that one is a person of value in a world of meaning, and thus eligible for either literal or symbolic immortality.
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