These include his birth in Malaya, to a mother who dies three days later of puerperal fever, and the first four and a half years of his childhood, raised by the daughter of his wet nurse among the indigenous children in the longhouse, shunned by his father, an overworked colonial administrator suffering from war wounds, bereavement, malaria and alcoholism.
In order to better understand the role of war-related bereavement above and beyond exposure to other war-related events, studies comparing war survivors with and without war-related bereavement might prove useful.
One of the studies on war-related bereavement indicated that widowed mothers might be the most vulnerable group of bereaved war survivors reporting the highest prevalence of prolonged grief among different bereaved individuals [ 8].
The recruitment of participants in only one region limits the generalization of the findings to other populations with war-related bereavement.
Yet, with many ongoing violent conflicts leading to a steady rise of war-related bereavement the international community also has an obligation to investigate and attenuate the psychological consequences of human rights violations.
Another important reference to the work can be found in the aforementioned letter by Jerome addressed to Heliodorus; Jerome noted that the Consolatio contained references to "men who showed equal fortitude in sorrow and war, and whose bereavements [Cicero] has set forth in his book".
From the Manson murders and the Iran-Contra affair to the Salvadoran civil war and her own bereavement, Didion tackled them all with her signature lyricism and savvy.
I don't think it's too big for dance, it's been tackled before, and I think dance can tackle the deep emotional feelings of war, like loss and bereavement, in a way that other forms can't.
Although adapted from Michelle Magorian's well-loved children's book, and therefore obviously a tempting ticket for those with children, Goodnight, Mister Tom (Duke of York's) had me, trained as a critic to avoid public shows of emotion, fighting to avoid tears of the bleak rather than sentimental kind, as its boy heroes are subjected to war, child abuse and bereavement.
For me, the loss of Owen as a poet during the first world war is a continuing poetic bereavement each time I read him.
