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Title: When words fail


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When words fail
  • Chaos and Containment

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Life stories creation of meaning
  • Focus on the individual and biography/autobiograph
    y
  • Continuing bonds in bereavement theory
  • Examination of illness narratives
  • (Kleinman, 1988 Frank, 1995 Seale, 1998 Bury
    2001)

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Forms of stories
  • The restitution narrative
  • Belongs to a modernist paradigm
  • The chaos narrative
  • Unspeakable experiences
  • The quest narrative
  • Draws on post-modern ideals
  • (Frank, 1995)

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Chaos void, vortex and vertigo
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Annihilation, Meaninglessness Nothingness
  • Psychoanalysis - always tried to understand the
    core anxiety of the human condition
  • Klein (1946) central to the earliest
    experiences is fear of personal annihilation
  • How the death instinct is experienced as
    working within the personality

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Meaninglessness Nothingness
  • Grotstein (1990)
  • Meaninglessness content without/deprived of
    meaning
  • Nothingness the container of meaninglessness
  • The death instinct as signifier of the
    disintegration of the self, dissolution

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Containment or nameless dread
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The moment of diagnosis
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Ronnys painting as a container
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