Year: 1995 Source: Clinical Social Work Journal, v.23, no.4, (Winter 1995), p.417-428 SIEC No: 19960230

Using selected concepts from Judith Herman’s trauma model, psychoanalytic theory, & narrative theory, the clinical work with a grief-stricken couple attempting to understand the suicide of their 26-year-old son, is presented. Within a short-term therapy, the goals were the deconstruction of a guilt-saturated narrative about the trauma, & the construction of an alternative narrative. (11 refs.)