Death Does Not Do Us Part

Abstract

The author illustrates cotexting (use of the therapist's verbal additions to the client's verbalization of the story) in a co-constructed ritual as a way of breaking up a rigid, locked position that is maintaining a bereaved widow's unresolved bereavement situation and suicidal preoccupation.

Key Words:

• Bereavement and grief
• cotexting
• crisis intervention
• ritual
• therapy
• silenced cultural issues
• widowhood