The Psychology of Funeral Rituals

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Therese Rando, How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies (New York: Bantam Books, 1991), pp. 6–7. 2. Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (New York: Free Press, 1973), p. 284. 3. Ibid., p. 259. 4. See Lucy Bregman, Death, Dying, Spirituality and Religions (New York: Peter Lang, 2003); and Rando, How to Go on Living. 5. Irvin Yalom, The Gift of Therapy (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), p. 126. 6. Irvin Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy (New York: Basic Books), 1980. 7. Steven Levine, A Year to Live (New York: Random House, 1997). 8. S. Wilson, The Mirror of Death (Ann Arbor, MI: Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001). 9. Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson, All Our Losses, All Our Griefs (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983). 10. Robert Kegan, The Evolving Self (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1982); Judith Viorst, Necessary Losses (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986). 11. See Kegan, The Evolving Self. 12. Murray Bowen, “Family Reactions to Death,” in Living Beyond Loss, From Walsh and Monica McGoldrick, eds. (New York: Norton, 1991). 13. J. M. Lewis, No Single Thread (New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1976). 14. Monica McGoldrick, “Echoes from the Past: Helping Families Mourn their Losses,” in Living Beyond Loss, Froma Walsh & Monica McGoldrick, eds. (New York: Norton, 1991). 15. Evan Imber-Black and Janine Roberts, Rituals for Our Times (New York: HarperCollins, 1991). 16. See Mitchell and Anderson, All Our Losses, All Our Griefs. 17. Mitchell and Anderson, 55. 18. John Bowlby, Loss, vol. 3 of Attachment and Loss (New York: Basic Books, 1980). 19. Camille Wortman, “The Myths of Coping with Loss,” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 57(3) (1989): 355. 20. Thomas Attig, “Relearning the World: Always Complicated, Sometimes More than Others” in Complicated Grieving and Bereavement, Gary Cox, R. A. Bendiksen, and R. E. Stevenson, eds. (Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2002), 7. 21. Ibid. 22. Mitchell and Anderson, All Our Losses, 131. 23. See Kegan, The Evolving Self. 24. Wayne Oates, Pastoral Care and Counseling in Grief and Separation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976). 25. Mitchell and Anderson, All Our Losses, 136. 26. Elaine Ramshaw, Ritual and Pastoral Care (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987), 32. 27. Lucy Bregman, Death, Dying, Spirituality and Religions (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 215. 28. Ibid. 29. See Imber-Black and Roberts, Rituals for Our Times. 30. See Bregman, Death, Dying, Spirituality, and Religions. 31. Daryl Paulson, “Nearing Death Process and Pastoral Counseling,” Pastoral Psychology 52(4) (2004), 339–352. 32. Paul Sheppy, Death, Liturgy and Ritual, vols. I–II. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004). 33. Bowen, “Family Reactions to Death,” 90. 34. Kenneth Doka, Living with Grief (Washington, D.C: Hospice Foundation of America, 2000), 153 35. See Bowen, “Family Reactions to Death,” and Edwin Friedman, From Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue (New York: Guilford Press. 1985). 36. L-C.Chen, “Grief as a Transcendent Function and Teacher of Spiritual Growth,” Pastoral Psychology 46 (1997): 79–84. Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul GiblinPaul Giblin is associate professor of pastoral counseling and graduate program director of the master's degree in pastoral counseling at Loyola University Chicago, the Institute of Pastoral Studies (IPS).Andrea HugAndrea Hug is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago, the Institute of Pastoral Studies, and an experienced hospice worker and family minister.