@article{ref1,
title="Chaos to coherence: Psychotherapeutic integration of traumatic loss",
journal="Journal of constructivist psychology",
year="2006",
author="Neimeyer, R.A. and Herrero, O. and Botella, L.",
volume="19",
number="2",
pages="127-145",
abstract="Traumatic life events have the power to disrupt those self-narratives with which people order their life experience, by challenging their organization, promoting the development of problem-dominated identities, and fostering dissociation of aspects of the experience in a way that precludes its integration. We briefly consider these processes at levels ranging from the biogenetic, through the personal-agentic, to the dyadic-relational, and ultimately to cultural-linguistic levels of narrative structure, and then present the results of a grounded theory analysis of psychotherapy to reveal the pragmatic and rhetorical strategies by which it counters such disruption. <br><br>RESULTS suggest the means by which a client and therapist collaborate to help the former reconstruct the meaning of her mother's suicide, ultimately moving toward greater coherence and hopefulness in the narration of her life. © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1072-0537",
doi="10.1080/10720530500508738",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720530500508738"
}