The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Memory. 2010 Feb;18(2):198-207. doi: 10.1080/09658210903143858.
Grief theories have converged on the idea that the sharing of autobiographical memory narratives of loss and of the deceased person, especially within the family, is a major way to maintain and/or reconfigure a healthy sense of identity after a loss. In contrast, we examine unspoken memory-the withholding of socially sharing autobiographical memories about the loss and the departed family member-as a way to either conserve an existing narrative identity or assert a new narrative identity. Depending on its context and function, silence about memory can play either a positive or negative role in an individual griever's ongoing narrative identity, as well as in the larger family narrative in which the griever's identity is embedded.
悲伤理论已经达成共识，即分享关于失去和已故亲人的自传体记忆叙述，尤其是在家庭内部，是在失去亲人后保持和/或重新构建健康身份认同的主要方式。相比之下，我们研究了未说出口的记忆——即保留关于失去和已故家庭成员的社会共享自传体记忆——以此来保持现有的叙述身份认同或主张新的叙述身份认同。根据其背景和功能，关于记忆的沉默可以在个体悲伤者的持续叙述身份认同中，以及在悲伤者身份认同所嵌入的更大的家庭叙述中，发挥积极或消极的作用。
