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 pre-occupation. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery@haworthpress.com> Website: <https://www.HaworthPress.com> © 2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.]