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  1. Article ; Online: Waiting and witnessing: Using reasonable hope to cope with uncertainty.

    Weingarten, Kaethe

    Journal of medical imaging and radiation sciences

    2022  Volume 53, Issue 2 Suppl, Page(s) S9–S15

    MeSH term(s) Adaptation, Psychological ; Humans ; Uncertainty
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-26
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2426513-5
    ISSN 1876-7982 ; 1939-8654
    ISSN (online) 1876-7982
    ISSN 1939-8654
    DOI 10.1016/j.jmir.2022.02.010
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  2. Article ; Online: Called to repair injustice: Connecting everyday practices to societal phenomena, creating momentum for solidarity and change.

    Weingarten, Kaethe

    Family process

    2022  Volume 62, Issue 1, Page(s) 6–34

    Abstract: I have been working with a model of witnessing for more than 30 years (Weingarten, 2000a ...

    Abstract I have been working with a model of witnessing for more than 30 years (Weingarten, 2000a). In this article, I add layers to its conceptualization by discussing several related concepts: the implicated subject (Rothberg, 2019) and ethical loneliness (Stauffer, 2015) among them. What distinguishes the Witnessing Model positions from the implicated subject is that the implicated subject is always aligned with power and/or domination, whereas a witness may not be. Certain responsibilities accrue if we take our implication seriously. Just as I have suggested there are steps one can take from positions two, three and four of the Witnessing Model to enter, return or remain in the aware and empowered position, a position from within which accountability is more likely, I offer ideas about how one can respond accountably when one acknowledges one's implication. Throughout this article, I raise questions, some of which I cannot answer. For instance, can empathic repair be undertaken by one party to a ruptured relationship, one segment of a society, without an unfolding process of mutual recognition and compassion? The contemporary moment in which we are living presents us with dire outcomes if the answer is "no." The entire article is an extended meditation on the following central question: How can we, implicated subjects, practice solidarity to diminish ethical loneliness and create movement toward the personal, interpersonal and structural changes necessary to address the truths that our implication entails?
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Social Responsibility ; Social Justice
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 212740-4
    ISSN 1545-5300 ; 0014-7370
    ISSN (online) 1545-5300
    ISSN 0014-7370
    DOI 10.1111/famp.12839
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  3. Article ; Online: The Art of Reflection: Turning the Strange into the Familiar.

    Weingarten, Kaethe

    Family process

    2016  Volume 55, Issue 2, Page(s) 195–210

    Abstract: There are a great many useful articles on the dynamics and pragmatics of reflecting teams but few articles address what constitutes a good or inept reflection and why. I provide a conceptual model for thinking about what a good reflection does, ... ...

    Abstract There are a great many useful articles on the dynamics and pragmatics of reflecting teams but few articles address what constitutes a good or inept reflection and why. I provide a conceptual model for thinking about what a good reflection does, distinguishing it from a nice reflection. With some further refinements in place, I then illustrate how reflections can be part of any relationship, not just clinical ones. We have opportunities to make them and to recognize when others make them to us. By using examples from my personal life-as a grandmother, daughter, radio listener, cancer survivor, and client-I attempt to ease the personal/professional binary, a project of mine for the last 35 years. In the second part of the article, I address how writing can serve reflection. Although best offered at the moment one is called for, it is never too late for a reflection. Writing allows people to offer reflections after the fact to those who have shared their stories. Sometimes, it is to ourselves we offer those reflections, when the reflector has long since dropped the thread of obligation or interest. I provide an example of working with iconic imagery to unpack meaning so that reflection can eventually take place, allowing integration to proceed, facilitating the strange becoming the familiar.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Imagery (Psychotherapy)/methods ; Thinking ; Writing
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 212740-4
    ISSN 1545-5300 ; 0014-7370
    ISSN (online) 1545-5300
    ISSN 0014-7370
    DOI 10.1111/famp.12158
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  4. Article ; Online: The "cruel radiance of what is": helping couples live with chronic illness.

    Weingarten, Kaethe

    Family process

    2013  Volume 52, Issue 1, Page(s) 83–101

    Abstract: ... relationally. The dynamic interplay of this experience of self-loss and other-loss (Roos, 2002; Weingarten ... Weingarten, 2012); and are comfortable with discussion of end of life issues. ...

    Abstract The threat of no longer being the person one wants to be hovers over each ill person and plays out relationally. The dynamic interplay of this experience of self-loss and other-loss (Roos, 2002; Weingarten, 2012) has a significant impact on couples, both of whom may come to have both experiences. In this article, I focus on the couples' experience of self- and other-loss in the context of chronic illness, in which one person's experience flows into and informs the other's. In particular, I describe how asymmetric acknowledgment of self-loss and other-loss adds to the misery of couples who are already challenged by poor health. Physical pain also makes dealing with self- and other-loss harder. Therapists can serve couples better if they take a fully collaborative stance; appreciate the dilemmas of witnessing; help couples distinguish new trauma from retraumatization and fear; work with the weaver's dilemma and the boatman's plight (Weingarten, 2012); and are comfortable with discussion of end of life issues.
    MeSH term(s) Adaptation, Psychological ; Chronic Disease/psychology ; Couples Therapy ; Emotions ; Family Characteristics ; Fear ; Gender Identity ; Humans ; Marriage/psychology ; Self Concept ; Terminal Care/psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 212740-4
    ISSN 1545-5300 ; 0014-7370
    ISSN (online) 1545-5300
    ISSN 0014-7370
    DOI 10.1111/famp.12017
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  5. Article ; Online: Sorrow: a therapist's reflection on the inevitable and the unknowable.

    Weingarten, Kaethe

    Family process

    2012  Volume 51, Issue 4, Page(s) 440–455

    Abstract: People who live with a painful gap between who they have been and who they are now, of who they dreamt themselves to be and who they still long to be, are living with chronic sorrow. Chronic sorrow is a normal, nonpathological state of pervasive, ... ...

    Abstract People who live with a painful gap between who they have been and who they are now, of who they dreamt themselves to be and who they still long to be, are living with chronic sorrow. Chronic sorrow is a normal, nonpathological state of pervasive, continuing, periodic, and resurgent sadness related to the ongoing losses associated with illness and disability, in this case not loss of an other, but loss of self (Roos, 2002). Focusing on the lives of four women, one of whom committed suicide, I explore the macroprocesses that invade the experience of even so personal an experience as self-loss. The role of the therapist is made transparent through anecdotes and by discussing implications for clinical practice.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Anecdotes as Topic ; Chronic Disease/psychology ; Female ; Grief ; Humans ; Life Change Events ; Middle Aged ; Professional-Patient Relations ; Psychotherapy ; Self Concept
    Language English
    Publishing date 2012-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 212740-4
    ISSN 1545-5300 ; 0014-7370
    ISSN (online) 1545-5300
    ISSN 0014-7370
    DOI 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01412.x
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  6. Article ; Online: The Solace of an Uncertain Future: Acute Illness, the Self, and Self-Care.

    Weingarten, Kaethe / Worthen, Miranda

    Family process

    2018  Volume 57, Issue 2, Page(s) 572–586

    Abstract: Take care of yourself" may be one of the most ubiquitous phrases spoken to people who are ill or to their caretakers. Yet few people who offer it as a balm consider what the self experience is of the person to whom the injunction is offered. We unravel ... ...

    Abstract "Take care of yourself" may be one of the most ubiquitous phrases spoken to people who are ill or to their caretakers. Yet few people who offer it as a balm consider what the self experience is of the person to whom the injunction is offered. We unravel some of the paradoxes inherent in the phrase, illustrating complexities that arise in the context of a life-threatening diagnosis. To illustrate the relational nature of the self, we analyze a partial transcript of an interview conducted in 1988 with the authors-a family therapist mother who had recently undergone surgery for breast cancer and her then 9-year-old daughter. We also examine the role of time in the interview. We propose that unlike PTSD when the past invades the present, in life-threatening illness the future is foreclosed, leading to distortions in current perception and behavior. The second author presents a follow-up to the interview and relates it to her current experience as a mother with chronic health issues. We close with suggestions for clinicians.
    MeSH term(s) Acute Disease/psychology ; Adult ; Aged ; Child ; Chronic Disease/psychology ; Female ; Forecasting ; Humans ; Mothers/psychology ; Nuclear Family/psychology ; Self Care/psychology ; Self Concept ; Uncertainty
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-03-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 212740-4
    ISSN 1545-5300 ; 0014-7370
    ISSN (online) 1545-5300
    ISSN 0014-7370
    DOI 10.1111/famp.12347
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  7. Article ; Online: Unreliable Bodies: A Follow-up Twenty Years Later by a Mother and Daughter about the Impact of Illness and Disability on their Lives.

    Weingarten, Kaethe / Worthen, Miranda

    Family process

    2017  Volume 56, Issue 1, Page(s) 262–277

    Abstract: We are a mother and daughter, both health care professionals, who offer a follow-up to an article we published twenty years ago about the impact of each other's ongoing, serious medical problems on our relationship. In this article, we contribute a long- ... ...

    Abstract We are a mother and daughter, both health care professionals, who offer a follow-up to an article we published twenty years ago about the impact of each other's ongoing, serious medical problems on our relationship. In this article, we contribute a long-term perspective on the differences between having an illness that is well or poorly understood by medical professionals and the lay community. We also discuss health in the context of identity formation and life stage, as during this interval the daughter left home, graduated college, married, and had two children. Also in this period, the mother survived a third breast cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. We discuss the impact of these experiences on each other and in other important relationships in our lives. Current discourses on daughters of breast cancer survivors do not fit our experience and we speculate about why our story differs. We find that although we continue to contend with serious medical issues that impact our own, each other's, and our families' lives, nonetheless, our lives are rich, rewarding, and "appropriate" for our life stage. That is the news.
    MeSH term(s) Child of Impaired Parents/psychology ; Chronic Disease/psychology ; Female ; Humans ; Mother-Child Relations/psychology ; Mothers/psychology ; Nuclear Family/psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Personal Narratives
    ZDB-ID 212740-4
    ISSN 1545-5300 ; 0014-7370
    ISSN (online) 1545-5300
    ISSN 0014-7370
    DOI 10.1111/famp.12197
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  8. Article: Reasonable hope: construct, clinical applications, and supports.

    Weingarten, Kaethe

    Family process

    2010  Volume 49, Issue 1, Page(s) 5–25

    Abstract: Hope may be the most laden shorthand term of all time. Everyone wants it; few know how to articulate what it is. Although family therapists frequently work to restore hope with hopeless families, they have contributed little to the abundant literature on ...

    Abstract Hope may be the most laden shorthand term of all time. Everyone wants it; few know how to articulate what it is. Although family therapists frequently work to restore hope with hopeless families, they have contributed little to the abundant literature on hope. I present a new conceptualization of hope-reasonable hope-that reflects how family therapists think and practice. By subscribing to reasonable hope, clinicians enhance their ability to offer accompaniment and bear witness to clients. I describe clinical practices that, informed by reasonable hope, also facilitate its cocreation. Finally, I suggest supports for clinicians who practice reasonable hope.
    MeSH term(s) Adaptation, Psychological ; Attitude to Health ; Family Relations ; Family Therapy ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Social Support ; Stress, Psychological
    Language English
    Publishing date 2010-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 212740-4
    ISSN 1545-5300 ; 0014-7370
    ISSN (online) 1545-5300
    ISSN 0014-7370
    DOI 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01305.x
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  9. Article ; Online: Intersecting losses: working with the inevitable vicissitudes in therapist and client lives.

    Weingarten, Kaethe

    Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.)

    2010  Volume 47, Issue 3, Page(s) 371–384

    Abstract: Therapists working with clients with severe trauma histories over long periods of time may find themselves managing traumatic events in their own lives-illness, divorce, death-at the same time as they are assisting their clients to live productively with ...

    Abstract Therapists working with clients with severe trauma histories over long periods of time may find themselves managing traumatic events in their own lives-illness, divorce, death-at the same time as they are assisting their clients to live productively with their painful pasts. While a few accounts exist describing how therapists deal with single overwhelming events, very little has been written about how therapists manage ongoing or prolonged episodes of severe stressors with a busy clinical practice of clients with severe trauma histories. Yet, we know that support for therapists is crucial to longevity in the field and we also know that learning from the experience of others is a highly recommended form of support. This paper is an account by a senior clinician of how she has maintained a productive clinical practice despite personal losses. Therapists who struggle with personal losses probably deal with choices related to self-disclosure more than therapists who do not have such experiences; they have repeated opportunities to establish appropriate and effective levels of self-disclosure for them and the people with whom they work. The paper presents a template for thinking about the risks and benefits of self-disclosure while at the same time modeling a level of self-disclosure that may be beneficial to therapists looking for examples.
    MeSH term(s) Attitude of Health Personnel ; Health Personnel/psychology ; Humans ; Life Change Events ; Mental Disorders/therapy ; Professional-Patient Relations ; Psychotherapy ; Self Disclosure ; Stress, Psychological/psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2010-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 281564-3
    ISSN 1939-1536 ; 0033-3204
    ISSN (online) 1939-1536
    ISSN 0033-3204
    DOI 10.1037/a0021170
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  10. Article: On hating to hate.

    Weingarten, Kaethe

    Family process

    2006  Volume 45, Issue 3, Page(s) 277–288

    Abstract: Hate may be the most dangerous of all emotions for the survival of the planet. The author addresses two questions: What obscures hate when it is actually present? and What masquerades as hate but isn't? Using illustrations from a wide range of fields, ... ...

    Abstract Hate may be the most dangerous of all emotions for the survival of the planet. The author addresses two questions: What obscures hate when it is actually present? and What masquerades as hate but isn't? Using illustrations from a wide range of fields, the author contends that discerning hate is both essential and far trickier than we think. She concludes by asserting that overcoming hate requires imagination. We must learn to imagine a world without hate and unimagine a world with hate.
    MeSH term(s) Global Health ; Hate ; Humans ; Politics ; Poverty ; Violence
    Language English
    Publishing date 2006-05-31
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 212740-4
    ISSN 1545-5300 ; 0014-7370
    ISSN (online) 1545-5300
    ISSN 0014-7370
    DOI 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00170.x
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