Lamentation for Two Voices In Different Keys
This theopoetic piece gives voice to two experiences of loss and mourning. The first is that of a client, Kelly, raised an Evangelical. She is rent by crushing, continuous loss that began when she discovered and began living out her sexuality as a gay woman. The therapist mirrors Kelly's grief...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Journal of psychology and christianity
Year: 2017, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 288-296 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lesbian
/ Evangelical movement
/ Grief
/ Mortality
/ Relationship to God (motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KDG Free church NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Grief
B Human Sexuality B Memory B Mortality B Lesbians B Evangelicalism |
| Summary: | This theopoetic piece gives voice to two experiences of loss and mourning. The first is that of a client, Kelly, raised an Evangelical. She is rent by crushing, continuous loss that began when she discovered and began living out her sexuality as a gay woman. The therapist mirrors Kelly's grief and pain by speaking directly to Kelly throughout the narrative. This gives immediacy to Kelly's subjective experience and captures the intimacy between them. The second voice, in italics, belongs to the therapist, who is facing the ending of her career. She is contending with her own losses in the form of aging, physical decline, heightened awareness of mortality, generative love, and meaning in life. The respective journeys of therapist and client are inextricably linked and cross fluid boundaries of memory and shared suffering. Moments, individually and together, are chronicled over months and seasons that span several years. The work continues... |
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| ISSN: | 0733-4273 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity
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