Re-collection in existential psychotherapy with couples and families dealing with death

Author(s): Ahern, R.

Journal/Book: Contemp Fam Ther. 1998; 20: 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013-1578. Human Sci Press Inc. 47-57.

Abstract: Re-collection is a treatment dynamic in existential family therapy in which the client family is helped to remember and honor meanings that family members have previously actualized and deposited in the past. This ''shrinks'' the family meaning vacuum and those symptoms and problems that grow and flourish in a family meaning vacuum. In this article, an existential orientation to re-collection with families who are dealing with the death of a loved one is presented, described, and illustrated with case material.

Note: Article Lantz J, Midwest Existential Psychotherapy Inst, 1947 Coll Rd, Columbus,OH 43210 USA

Keyword(s): existential marital and family therapy; art; poetry; photographs; recollection; death

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