Citation

Małecka KA, Bottomley JS. Death Stud. 2022; 46(4): 842-850.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07481187.2019.1705938

PMID

31894733

Abstract

The grief memoir is a fast-developing genre that in recent decades has become a popular form of public mourning and self-therapy in many Western cultures, especially in the United States and Great Britain. We surveyed 76 helping professionals to assess if the grief memoir is a genre with which they are familiar and whether they employ such narratives as an adjunct in their work with the bereaved. Most bibliotherapeutic studies focus either on self-help or affective literature. This study is unique in evaluating a life writing genre which promises to combine the therapeutic benefits of both.

Language: en