RE-COLLECTION IN EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH COUPLES AND FAMILIES DEALING WITH DEATH

Re-collection is a treatment dynamic in existential family therapy in which the client family is helped to remember and honor meanings that family members have previously actualized and deposited in the past. T his ''shrinks'' the family meaning vacuum and those symptoms and probl ems that grow and flourish in a family meaning vacuum. In this article , an existential orientation to re-collection with families who are de aling with the death of a loved one is presented, described, and illus trated with case material.