Dead-baby dreams, transfiguration and recovery from infant death trauma in northeast Brazil

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 662-682

  Nations, Marilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORTALEZA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

depression; grief; infant death; interpretive violence; Northeast Brazil; trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BRAZIL; CHILD DEATH; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DREAM; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FOLLOW UP; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GRIEF; HELPLESSNESS; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MORALITY; MOTHER; MOURNING; PHENOTYPE; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TRADITIONAL HEALER;

DEPRESSION; GRIEF; INFANT DEATH; INTERPRETIVE VIOLENCE; NORTHEAST BRAZIL; TRAUMA;

BEREAVEMENT; BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH; DREAMS; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUILT; HOPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHERS; NARRATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 84886413077     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461513497501     Document Type: Article

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