Making Meaning of Loss
Meaning-making of Loss: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In psychology, meaning-making is the process of how persons construe, understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self.[1] Through meaning-making, persons are "retaining, reaffirming, revising, or replacing elements of their orienting system to develop more nuanced, complex and useful systems".[2]
The term is widely used in constructivist approaches to counseling psychology and psychotherapy,[3] especially during bereavementin which persons attribute some sort of meaning to an experienced death or loss.[4] The term is also used in educational psychology.[5]
Psychiatrist and holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, founder of logotherapy in the 1940s, posited in his 1946 book Man's Search for Meaning that the primary motivation of a person is to discover meaning in life.[6] Frankl insisted that meaning can be discovered under all circumstances, even in the most miserable experiences of loss and tragedy. He said that people could discover meaning through doing a deed, experiencing a value, and experiencing suffering. Although Frankl did not use the term "meaning-making", his emphasis on the making of meaning influenced later psychologists.[7]
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In psychology, meaning-making is the process of how persons construe, understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self.[1] Through meaning-making, persons are "retaining, reaffirming, revising, or replacing elements of their orienting system to develop more nuanced, complex and useful systems".[2]
The term is widely used in constructivist approaches to counseling psychology and psychotherapy,[3] especially during bereavementin which persons attribute some sort of meaning to an experienced death or loss.[4] The term is also used in educational psychology.[5]
Psychiatrist and holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, founder of logotherapy in the 1940s, posited in his 1946 book Man's Search for Meaning that the primary motivation of a person is to discover meaning in life.[6] Frankl insisted that meaning can be discovered under all circumstances, even in the most miserable experiences of loss and tragedy. He said that people could discover meaning through doing a deed, experiencing a value, and experiencing suffering. Although Frankl did not use the term "meaning-making", his emphasis on the making of meaning influenced later psychologists.[7]
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