{"id":1952,"date":"2025-07-30T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:14:42","slug":"accompagner-le-deuil-therapie-breve-et-systemique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/accompagner-le-deuil-therapie-breve-et-systemique\/","title":{"rendered":"When the bond endures: supporting grief with brief and systemic therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the course of my practice, I am regularly called upon to accompany this period that begins after a death<\/b> and that we call grief<\/b>. These are deeply emotional moments of intimacy, when death<\/b> bursts into the psyche and disrupts its defense mechanisms.<\/p>

Last April, I took a training course on grief support<\/b>. Here is what I would like to share with you:<\/p>

We spend our lives losing things, relationships. Loss, like death, is part of life<\/b>. And yet, even if death is part of life, supporting a grieving person is particularly delicate. Brief and systemic therapy<\/a> invites us to give meaning back to lost bonds without freezing the pain.<\/b><\/p>

Talking about death does not make it come.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Grief<\/b> is not an illness to be cured<\/b> but a process to be supported. It is neither forgetting nor erasing \u2014 it is the act of remembering and coming to terms with absence<\/b>, reorganizing one\u2019s life around an absence that has become internal.<\/p>

The manifestations of mourning vary depending on the culture.<\/h2>

The expression of sadness varies across cultures. And it is within this process that rituals<\/b> and a supportive presence<\/b> during critical moments are important. The famous \u201cgrief curve\u201d by Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross is less widely accepted today, as this stage-based classification is, on the one hand, a limiting concept, and on the other, too focused on grief manifestations in Western populations. For example, we now prefer to speak of adaptation rather than acceptance<\/b>.<\/p>

Experiencing the death of a loved one can lead us through a period of vulnerability<\/b>, triggering reactions of mild or severe stress<\/b>, and various expressions of internalized or externalized disorders<\/b>. Depending on the situation, it is important to consider the timing of these reactions, recognizing that each individual lives a unique story.<\/p>

There are several types of grief<\/b> :<\/h2>

So-called \u201canticipated\u201d or \u201cadjusted\u201d grief, complicated<\/b> or \u201cdifficult\u201d grief, possibly even chronic<\/b> grief, as well as traumatic grief<\/b>, post-traumatic<\/b> or pathological<\/b> grief.<\/p>

They are linked to context \u2014 whether it is a violent, unexpected, intentional, or \u201canticipated\u201d death (illness, old age), whether we witnessed it or not, whether it occurred from a distance, in one\u2019s own country or abroad. Grief will be experienced differently depending on the age of the bereaved person<\/b>, the level of attachment bond<\/b>, and any individual or family trauma history, if present. The presence of the body, its condition, or its absence are also impactful elements to take into account.<\/p>

In therapy, we will name things, welcome them, learn to manage our fears, accompany to support, authorize, restore, and above all take the time.<\/b><\/p>

In systemic therapy<\/b>, grief is never experienced alone<\/b>: it is woven into a network of relationships, stories, and rituals. It is this fabric that we aim to support and transform by co-constructing something lasting that sustains the mobilization of the bereaved person's resources.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dans l\u2019exercice de ma pratique, je suis r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement sollicit\u00e9e pour accompagner cette p\u00e9riode qui s\u2019ouvre apr\u00e8s un d\u00e9c\u00e8s et que […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,9,12,17,13,10],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-accompagnement","tag-deuil","tag-memoire-dune-personne-disparue","tag-mieux-vivre-le-deuil","tag-mort-dun-proche","tag-rituel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psylyon6.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}