Congenital loss: Loss of an immediate family member prior to or during one's birth.
The loss of a family member is often conceptualized as a disruption in one's life story. However, when a loss occurs prior to, or during, one's birth, the bereaved life stories are not interrupted by the loss, but rather begin with loss. The paper offers a new conceptualization of these losses as "c...
| Published in: | Death Studies Vol. 47; no. 8; pp. 914 - 926 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023
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