What has happened to me in the intervening years is that I have participated in the widespread American
experience of the loss of innocence.
It gives a very brief, specific glimpse of a situation touching on the
universal experience of loss, and through it delivers an incredibly strong drama.
So, as I reflect on my
own experience of loss, here are a few things you can do for a friend who has lost someone they love deeply.
From my
personal experience of loss as well as from my work as a counselor, my hope for women who've suffered through miscarriage, infertility, or other forms of loss is that we will see our stories accurately rather than through a cloud by condemnation.
This visually beautiful and engaging animation from the Ghibli Studio combines fantasy with deep
human experiences of loss,... Read More
How we turn this melancholic
experience of loss into a form of satisfaction is the subject of Tate Britain's exhibition Ruin Lust, curated by Brian Dillon (editor of Ruins, a 2011 collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery).
Repeated experiences of loss — hair, teeth, vitality, youthful appearance, rapid recuperative powers, etc. — bring mourning and the reminder of even larger losses in the future.
It is in this painted space of «intimate immensity,» where dueling weather systems, terrain and sky, and the flooding light and growing shadows collide, that «Gornik's landscape opens out onto psychological experience broadly defined — the
modern experience of loss without a lost object.
For example, whether or not a child develops a mental health difficulty after experiencing a death in the family will depend on such things as the age and emotional temperament of the child; the closeness of the relationship between the child and the person who has died; the support available through relatives, friends and others; whether the death was sudden or anticipated; and the effects of any
previous experiences of loss.
When inflamed by abandonment fears these vulnerabilities translate into the inherently
traumatizing experiences of loss, deprivation, rejection and meaninglessness.
Image and sound call up associations with the psychic and existential borderline areas around which Nauman's art often revolves, with feelings of isolation and claustrophobia,
experiences of loss of communication and of orientation, and traumas such as that of being buried alive.
Creating a contemplative promenade experience, the works are set to trigger reGlections ranging from
personal experiences of loss to the current political destruction -LSB-...]
Although he apparently possesses the ability to move objects in classic poltergeist style, he's a passive witness for much of the time, a blank slate on which we can project our
own experience of loss or those suggested by extensive use of the Kuleshov effect, a technique by which neutral expressions are given meaning through editing.
«Having
this experience of a loss at such a pivotal time in the growth of my company was a tremendous challenge.»
Unless
the experience of loss is expressed, examined and understood, new ways of living are not able to emerge.
But it is not a simple not - having, for there is
an experience of loss.
Both men spoke not as private persons but instead quoted from our deepest public memories, which are eloquent in the face of death when we, as solitary individuals encased in our personal
experiences of loss, so often are wordless with grief.
I believe that God is present in the experiences not only of joy, growth and becoming, but also in
the experiences of loss, adversity, diminishment and death.
There is
an experience of loss among the radical death of God theologians.
Tragedy is
the experience of loss, of possibilities unactualized and lost that tempers Youth and its zest for adventure.
I wanted to talk about how much I have learned from reading the writings of adult adoptees, and how
their experiences of loss and isolation inform me as a parent, and also break my heart.
While I seek to help clients by normalizing
their experience of loss, I also must attend to individual experiences of grief, anger, and fear, as well as moments of joy, relief, and -LSB-...]
While I seek to help clients by normalizing
their experience of loss, I also must attend to individual experiences of grief, anger, and fear, as well as moments of joy, relief, and connection.
Understanding loss and grief from a family perspective enables families to engage in the work of grief together and develop strategies for navigating grief as a family recognizing that each person's role and
experience of loss is different.
He concluded in his scholarly book Meaning Reconstruction and
the Experience of Loss (American Psychological Association, 2001): «At the most obvious level, scientific studies have failed to support any discernible sequence of emotional phases of adaptation to loss or to identify any clear end point to grieving that would designate a state of «recovery.
Their son Ronsel (Jason Mitchell) goes to war, and returns changed by
his experience of loss, and his greater acceptance in Europe as a man of color.
Tessa Praun, curator of the exhibition tells us that: «
Experiences of loss and the need to put a face to anonymous suffering...
My work is about memory, the passage of time, mortality and the photograph's role in shaping
our experience of loss.
Her cartoonish, often anthropomorphized sculptures and videos «explore universal
experiences of loss, alienation, and a search for belonging,» says the press release for her show at the Whitney, which opened to the public today and is her first museum solo show in the US.
The photographs in sleepless nights reflect Gersht's interest in the remembering and forgetting of historical events tied to place, and how the human
experience of loss, pain, and social fracture inform our sense of belonging.
Whose «paradise» is a matter of conjecture, but
the experience of loss is triggered by our inability to fully see the four paintings and wrap - around wall mural that are the show's star attractions.
This permanent caesure in the landscape, like a wound, will reproduce
the experience of loss and will testify the irreplaceable void left by those human lives.
The experience of loss affects each child differently.
Each child's
experience of loss is unique to that child and needs to be understood and responded to individually.
They are based on an insight into
the experience of loss and its full human implications.
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The experience of loss: Coping and the seasons for growth program» in The Australian Educational and Development Psychologist, 23 (1), 45 - 67.