@article{ref1,
title="Standing in spaces and feeling alright: the experience of bereaved fathers of fallen soldiers in Israel",
journal="Psychology of men and masculinity",
year="2021",
author="Weinberg-Kurnik, Galia and Anchoo, Ofra and Leichtentritt, Ronit D.",
volume="22",
number="4",
pages="715-722",
abstract="The unique voice of bereaved fathers of fallen soldiers has largely been ignored in Israeli discourse. Using 10 semistructured in-depth interviews, we examined the bereavement experience of Israeli fathers after the loss of a child during their army service. The interviews were analyzed using the hermeneutical phenomenology method. The fathers' bereavement experiences were characterized by swings between closeness and distance in two main contexts: (a) the father and his social environment and (b) his internal mental experiences. Three themes were identified: (a) the fathers create both distance and closeness to others; (b) closeness and distance within the fathers' internal world; and (c) the dialectic of the bereavement experience, namely the coexistence of distance and closeness. The results provide insight into the fathers' ability to &quot;stand among the spaces,&quot; by negotiating various aspects of their selves in the context of bereavement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1524-9220",
doi="10.1037/men0000362",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/men0000362"
}