Grief Worlds A Study of Emotional Experience

• Main Author: Ratcliffe, Matthew (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Phenomenology & Existentialism; Psychology: emotions; Emotional experience; emotion regulation; feeling; grief; interpersonal relations; loss; phenomenology; possibility; world-experience; Bereavement hallucinations; sensed-presence experiences; interpersonal experience; Complicated grief; depression; resilience; Continuing bonds; object of grief; possibilities
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A wide-ranging philosophical exploration of what it is to experience grief and what this tells us about human emotional life. Experiences of grief can be bewildering, disorienting, and isolating; everything seems somehow different, in ways that are difficult to comprehend and describe. Why does the...