My research generated five core categories: A chance to mourn (or a turn to melancholia); Oedipal/Electra issues; A heart connection – psyche and soma; “The terror I would forget his face”: accessing the lost parent through memories, objects and places; and What would have been different, had father not died. I could concentrate on some or all of these categories. If you are more interested in a more experiential workshop, I could adapt the questions I used in my research.
My colleague Eleanor O’Leary, who started the initiative of therapeutic groups in the nursing home has sadly died this year. The actual research paper was my work. Eleanor edited it.
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I am a psychologist and psychotherapist, who works in primary care and privately. I was teaching in University College Cork until september 2021, and I contributed to the MA in Art Therapy for Munster Technological University. My area of interest is in the short and long term effects of parental bereavement during adolescence.
I lost my dad at 17, when he was 44, leaving 5 children. Even at 75 that loss is still important in lots of different ways. I researched the topic for my MA in Integrative Psychotherapy.
