• Fam Syst Health · Mar 2009

    Taking care of grieving through poetry: memories of palliative care's presence or absence.

    • Nance Cunningham.
    • Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Oklahoma, 820 Van Vleet Oval, Room 227, Norman, OK 73019, USA. nance.cunningham@ou.edu
    • Fam Syst Health. 2009 Mar 1;27(1):98-104.

    AbstractFamilies navigate loss of loved ones in a number of ways, including the creation of narratives of family experiences during the patient's illness and death. Robinson (2004) suggests that grieving family members create poetry together. Using a version of this method, the author processes losses by responding to the poems her husband wrote about the illnesses and deaths of a friend and several family members. Each poem is followed by a letter in which the author addresses the main character of the poem in order to provide new perspectives on her identity and her memories.

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