Bereavement and Companion Animals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Avery D Weisman (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 241-248 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/c54y-ugmh-qgr4-cwtl |
| OpenAlex | W2081990240 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 2 |
Loss of a companion animal accompanied by intense grief and mourning is seldom recognized as an important and authentic occasion for bereavement. While pet ownership is praised and its virtues celebrated, corresponding grief is often trivialized and not recognized as truly significant. The author established a bereavement counseling program at a humane society and reports findings that confirm parallels between human and animal bonding and bereavements. The act of consenting to euthanasia was particularly disturbing, as if the owner had betrayed a trust by opting for death over life. Most of the bereaved owners reported depths of feeling that were unique and in most cases beyond those experienced in other deaths
Companion animal · Disenfranchised grief · Feeling · Grief · Parallels · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Grief, Spirituality and Symbolism
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Funeral services, interaction with grieving clients, and human-animal bond in animals’ Heaven Cemetery, Romania
End-of-Life Issues in United States Veterinary Medicine Schools
Communicating Social Support to Grieving Clients
Relationship of Recollections of First Death Experience to Current Death Attitudes
Beyond disenfranchized grief
Lassie Come Home
Therapeutic Implications of Continuing Bonds Expressions following the Death of a Pet
Grief for the Loss of a Pet
The importance of pet loss and some implications for services
A Comparison of the Grief Reaction of Children and Adults
Beyond Recovery
Practitioner Experiences of the Death of an Equine in an Equine-Assisted Services Program
Posttraumatic Growth Following the Loss of a Pet
Pet Grief
From Puppy Love to Pet Peeve
Development of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire
Adjustment to the Death of a Companion Animal
When a pet dies
Managing Pet Owners' Guilt and Grief in Veterinary Euthanasia Encounters
Exploring the Grief Experience Among Callers to a Pet Loss Support Hotline
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |