TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconstructing the Loss
T2 - Bereaved Parents in Personal Commemorative Films
AU - Bachrach, Bilha
AU - Landau, Ruth
PY - 2014/9
Y1 - 2014/9
N2 - The aim of this study was to find answers to the question of how Israeli parents who have lost their child in battle or in a terror attack reconstruct their life story, as revealed in personal commemorative films. Twenty personal documentary commemorative films were systematically and thematically analyzed. Through exposing the themes of last shared experience, death event, and notification of death, the research sheds light on the self-healing process that enables parents to build a bridge in their narrative. The commemorative films provide a framework for reconstruction work adding to the new body of research in the field of video and cinema therapy.
AB - The aim of this study was to find answers to the question of how Israeli parents who have lost their child in battle or in a terror attack reconstruct their life story, as revealed in personal commemorative films. Twenty personal documentary commemorative films were systematically and thematically analyzed. Through exposing the themes of last shared experience, death event, and notification of death, the research sheds light on the self-healing process that enables parents to build a bridge in their narrative. The commemorative films provide a framework for reconstruction work adding to the new body of research in the field of video and cinema therapy.
KW - Israel
KW - bereaved parents
KW - loss
KW - narrative
KW - personal commemorative films
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905510761&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15325024.2013.806841
DO - 10.1080/15325024.2013.806841
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AN - SCOPUS:84905510761
SN - 1532-5024
VL - 19
SP - 484
EP - 495
JO - Journal of Loss and Trauma
JF - Journal of Loss and Trauma
IS - 5
ER -