Forgiveness and Blame Among Suicide Survivors: A Qualitative Analysis on Reports of 4-Year Self-Help-Group Meetings

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Testoni, Ines
Francescon, Elisa
De Leo, Diego
Santini, Anna
Zamperini, Adriano
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This article presents the qualitative analysis of reports obtained through participant observations collected over a 4-year period in a series of suicide survivor self-help group meetings. It analysed how grievers’ healing was managed by their own support. The longitudinal study was focused on self/other blame and forgiveness. Results show how self-blame was continuously present along all the period and how it increased when new participants entered the group. This finding indicates that self-blame characterizes especially the beginning of the participation, and that any new entrance rekindles the problem. However, no participant had ever definitively demonstrated self-forgiveness, while a general forgiveness appeared when self-blame stopped. It is also suggested how to facilitate the elaboration of self-blame and forgiveness.

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Community Mental Health Journal

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© 2018 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Community Mental Health Journal, 2018 pp. 1-9. Community Mental Health Journal is available online at: http://link.springer.com// with the open URL of your article.

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