Robins, Simon orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-2159 (2016) Discursive approaches to ambiguous loss:theorizing community-based therapy after enforced disappearance. Journal of Family Theory and Review. ISSN 1756-2589
Abstract
Ambiguous loss is experienced and constructed relationally. As a result, the social and political context plays a role alongside psychological factors as elements that both mediate the impact of ambiguous loss and can aid or retard effective coping. By considering the case of persons disappeared in political violence, an approach to addressing ambiguous loss is theorized that can use community-based therapeutic approaches. Beginning from poststructuralist ideas of discourse as being constitutive of human subjectivity, the role of discourse is discussed in terms of its capacity to both construct ambiguity and mold social relations that can build resilience. A therapeutic approach is postulated with families of the disappeared that seeks explicitly to have an impact on discourses circulating in communities affected by disappearance in ways that positively influence the well-being of the families of those missing, as well as on the meanings and identities that affected persons construct from them.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, National Council on Family Relations. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2017 14:45 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 14:07 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122588 |
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