ABSTRACT That expressive writing can be a beneficial response to trauma or grief is well-established in the literature. Grief research also shows that the majority of people are resilient in the face of the death of loved ones. That said, traditional rituals around loss are no longer ubiquitous, well-known phase models of bereavement are contested, and ‘unfinished business’ can create difficulties in the face of loss. Increasingly, bereavement scholars speak of a need for individuals in western society to make meaning of their own grief through narrative construction, though little is said about what constitutes a beneficial story. The author takes an autoethnographic approach to write and reflect on her spouse’s illness and death and explores through a multi-voiced expressive dialogue a personal issue around her bereavement. In an analysis of her writing, using Dialogical Self Theory, she identifies markers which may be indicative of the development of a beneficially constructed narrative. The model of writing-for-transformation is used to describe the overall intent of the process, while the dialogical markers show how progress may be identified.

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写下自我和丧亲之痛：穿越悲伤的对话方式和标志

摘要 富有表现力的写作可以是对创伤或悲伤的有益反应，这一点在文献中得到了很好的证实。悲伤研究还表明，大多数人在面对亲人的死亡时都具有韧性。也就是说，围绕失去的传统仪式不再无处不在，众所周知的丧亲之相模型受到质疑，“未完成的事业”可能会在面对损失时造成困难。越来越多的丧亲者学者谈到西方社会的个人需要通过叙事建构来理解他们自己的悲伤，尽管很少有人提到什么是有益的故事。作者采用自主民族志的方式来写作和反思她配偶的疾病和死亡，并通过多声表达的对话探索围绕她的丧亲之痛的个人问题。在使用对话自我理论对她的写作进行分析时，她确定了可能表明有益构建叙事发展的标记。为转换而写作的模型用于描述过程的整体意图，而对话标记则显示如何识别进度。