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Keeping Our Balance

The Profound Challenge of Loss

Pages 291-301
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Processing loss can be one of the most psychologically challenging experiences humans encounter. This article addresses the question, “Why is the grieving process sometimes so profoundly challenging to our psychological equilibrium?” Using transactional analysis and the work of Wilma Bucci, the author considers ways of working with someone who is grieving and the usefulness of a contemporary view of the goal of grief work. She also discusses the homeostatic nature of script in transactional analysis theory. By integrating complexity theory, she makes the case for stability as a function of a linked yet differentiated system and argues for the value of destabilization.

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Lis Heath

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Lis Heath, BSc, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy-registered psychotherapist. She lives in Penrith in the north of England where she maintains a private clinical and supervision practice. She currently also teaches transactional analysis in Romania. She can be contacted at 24 Wordsworth Street, Penrith CA11 7QY, United Kingdom; email .
 

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