Ratcliffe, Matthew James orcid.org/0000-0003-4519-4833 (2022) Phenomenological Reflections on Grief during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. ISSN 1568-7759
Abstract
This paper addresses how and why social restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have affected people’s experiences of grief. To do so, I adopt a broadly phenomenological approach, one that emphasizes how our experiences, thoughts, and activities are shaped by relations with other people. Drawing on first-person accounts of grief during the pandemic, I identify two principal (and overlapping) themes: (a) deprivation and disruption of interpersonal processes that play important roles in comprehending and adapting to bereavement; (b) disturbance of an experiential world in the context of which loss is more usually recognized and negotiated. The combination, I suggest, can amount to a sort of “grief within grief”, involving a sense of stasis consistent with clinical descriptions of prolonged grief disorder.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Philosophy (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC AH/T000066/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2022 10:00 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:46 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09840-8 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11097-022-09840-8 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188292 |
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