Coming to Terms with Our Regrets

This article focuses on the personal experience of regret and the importance of coming to terms with our regrets. It begins with a sermon preached by the first author in which the issue of regret is explored by means of a summary of the film The Big Kahuna, continues with a discussion of recent arti...

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Authors: Carlin, Nathan 1979- (Author) ; Capps, Donald 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2009]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2009, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 224-239
Further subjects:B Authenticity
B Honesty
B Future-related regret
B Past-related regret
B Listening
B Regrets of omission
B Janet Landman
B Reframing
B Regrets of commission
B Death
B Grafton T. Eliason
B Parabolic experiences
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Summary:This article focuses on the personal experience of regret and the importance of coming to terms with our regrets. It begins with a sermon preached by the first author in which the issue of regret is explored by means of a summary of the film The Big Kahuna, continues with a discussion of recent articles (Tomer and Eliason, Existential and spiritual issues in death attitudes, 2008; Mannarino et al., Existential and spiritual issues in death attitudes, 2008) on the concept of regret formulated by Landman (Landman, Regret: A theoretical and conceptual analysis, 1987; Regret: The persistence of the possible, 1993), and on regret therapy, and concludes with a pastoral care case in which a dying woman expresses both future-related and past-related regrets. The case is interpreted in light of regret therapy's emphasis on parabolic experiences and reframing techniques.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-009-9238-x