Milestones without mothers: How young Jewish women re -grieve while celebrating
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Title
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Milestones without mothers: How young Jewish women re -grieve while celebrating
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:4901c1f23884:10079
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identifier
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10163
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Creator
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Friedman, Julie,
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Contributor
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Dr. Elizabeth A. Danto
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Date
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2009
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Social work | Judaic studies | Clinical psychology | Childbirth | Grief | Jewish | Motherloss | Wedding | Young Women
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Abstract
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This study details the affective upheavals experienced by young adult Jewish women experienced after the death of their mother and during moments of personal celebration. These major life-changing events produce shame and guilt in the young woman who wants to be happy, yet is not because she is still grieving her mother's death. This dissertation has attempted to explore a seeming paradox in human behavior: the contradiction implicit between the experiences of grief and of celebration. To resolve this, I have developed a new clinical concept which I call re-grieving, the clinical experience that emerges from seemingly contradictory affective impulses such as mixing sadness with joy, attachment with loss, vulnerability with strength, and dependence with independence. This study was grounded in a review of the literature, as well as quantitative and qualitative investigations of Jewish young adult women undergoing major life event milestones after their mothers' have died. This study has determined that re-grieving is the by-product of the convergence of the following four variables, that when linked, create temporary feelings of despair, anxiety and vulnerability: (1) young adulthood, (2) a strong pre-death mother-daughter attachment bond, (3) milestone celebrations, and (4) Jewish mourning ritual practices.;The study examined the phenomenology of re-grieving: what it is; how it is experienced; who experienced these behaviors and emotions; when re-grieving is activated; and what are the implications for social work practice.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Social Welfare
