University of New South Wales, Australia.
University of Westminster, UK.
Health (London). 2019 Jan;23(1):58-75. doi: 10.1177/1363459317724854. Epub 2017 Aug 10.
This article explores the experience and meaning of time from the perspective of caregivers who have recently been bereaved following the death of a family member. The study is situated within the broader cultural tendency to understand bereavement within the logic of stages, including the perception of bereavement as a somewhat predictable and certainly time-delimited ascent from a nadir in death to a 'new normal' once loss is accepted. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 15 bereaved family caregivers we challenge bereavement as a linear, temporally bound process, examining the multiple ways bereavement is experienced and how it variously resists ideas about the timeliness, desirability and even possibility of 'recovery'. We posit, on the basis of these accounts, that the lived experience of bereavement offers considerable challenges to normative understandings of the social ties between the living and the dead and requires a broader reconceptualization of bereavement as an enduring affective state.
本文从最近经历过亲人去世的照顾者的角度探讨了时间的体验和意义。该研究立足于更广泛的文化倾向，即按照阶段的逻辑理解丧亲之痛，包括将丧亲之痛视为一种可预测且时间有限的上升过程，从死亡的最低点上升到一旦接受损失，就会达到“新常态”。本研究通过对 15 名丧亲家庭照顾者的访谈获得了定性数据，对丧亲之痛作为一个线性的、受时间限制的过程提出了挑战，考察了丧亲之痛的多种体验方式，以及它如何抵制关于“恢复”的及时性、可取性甚至可能性的观念。在此基础上，我们提出，丧亲之痛的实际体验对生者和死者之间社会联系的规范性理解提出了相当大的挑战，需要更广泛地重新概念化丧亲之痛，将其视为一种持久的情感状态。
