Perinatal Grief in the Indian Context: Conceptualizing and Companioning the Grieving Process
Reproductive loss takes many forms and is almost always a significant loss. In the Indian context, grieving over stillbirths is disenfranchised as the perinatal loss itself is shrouded in stigma, blame, discrimination, mistreatment, or misplaced guilt with an urgent expectation to move on. Perinatal...
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| author | Yamini Devendran Vaishalee Saravanan Veena A. Satyanarayana C. Savitha Gayathri Devi Geetha Desai |
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| description | Reproductive loss takes many forms and is almost always a significant loss. In the Indian context, grieving over stillbirths is disenfranchised as the perinatal loss itself is shrouded in stigma, blame, discrimination, mistreatment, or misplaced guilt with an urgent expectation to move on. Perinatal grief exists as disconcerted feelings of numbness, sadness, helplessness, anger, guilt, or frustration. This article aims to provide a broad view of the conceptualization of perinatal loss, including its psychological, sociocultural, and theological underpinnings. The article also highlights that companioning the grieving process through psychotherapeutic approaches has had encouraging outcomes yet requires more robust research supporting their effectiveness, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, including India. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7d17daa3e0af484bb17b4bedc5d6e27b2025-08-20T03:31:41ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Psychiatry Spectrum2949-69692025-07-014325626110.4103/jopsys.jopsys_85_24Perinatal Grief in the Indian Context: Conceptualizing and Companioning the Grieving ProcessYamini DevendranVaishalee SaravananVeena A. SatyanarayanaC. SavithaGayathri DeviGeetha DesaiReproductive loss takes many forms and is almost always a significant loss. In the Indian context, grieving over stillbirths is disenfranchised as the perinatal loss itself is shrouded in stigma, blame, discrimination, mistreatment, or misplaced guilt with an urgent expectation to move on. Perinatal grief exists as disconcerted feelings of numbness, sadness, helplessness, anger, guilt, or frustration. This article aims to provide a broad view of the conceptualization of perinatal loss, including its psychological, sociocultural, and theological underpinnings. The article also highlights that companioning the grieving process through psychotherapeutic approaches has had encouraging outcomes yet requires more robust research supporting their effectiveness, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, including India.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jopsys.jopsys_85_24parent-fetal attachmentperinatal griefperinatal losspsychotherapy for grief |
| spellingShingle | Yamini Devendran Vaishalee Saravanan Veena A. Satyanarayana C. Savitha Gayathri Devi Geetha Desai Perinatal Grief in the Indian Context: Conceptualizing and Companioning the Grieving Process Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum parent-fetal attachment perinatal grief perinatal loss psychotherapy for grief |
| title | Perinatal Grief in the Indian Context: Conceptualizing and Companioning the Grieving Process |
| title_full | Perinatal Grief in the Indian Context: Conceptualizing and Companioning the Grieving Process |
| title_fullStr | Perinatal Grief in the Indian Context: Conceptualizing and Companioning the Grieving Process |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perinatal Grief in the Indian Context: Conceptualizing and Companioning the Grieving Process |
| title_short | Perinatal Grief in the Indian Context: Conceptualizing and Companioning the Grieving Process |
| title_sort | perinatal grief in the indian context conceptualizing and companioning the grieving process |
| topic | parent-fetal attachment perinatal grief perinatal loss psychotherapy for grief |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jopsys.jopsys_85_24 |
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