ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a brief overview of some techniques used to promote proper grieving, briefly suggests a useful theoretical approach to the need for adequate grieving, and outlines one specific operational approach to grieving in psychotherapy. The essential steps of the grieving process involves reliving events connected with a death—with eyes closed; revising a scene so as to remove obstacles to full grieving, and revisiting the revised scene. The personal construct theory of George Kelly provides an excellent general theoretical perspective from which to understand the process of grieving. The use of imagery techniques within psychotherapy can greatly assist a therapist in grief work with a client. The techniques used by the emerge from a short–term form of psychotherapy called emotive–reconstructive therapy. Believe that for several decades psychologists have caught up so much in empirical research that they have neglected the role of theory.
