Thriving After Trauma Jose Parappully et al.
THRIVING AFTER TRAUMA:
THE EXPERIENCE OF PARENTS
OF MURDERED CHILDREN
JOSE PARAPPULLY is now director of Bosco Psy-
chological Services in New Delhi, India. The focus of
his work is on the integration of psychological prac-
tices and spiritual traditions in the healing and
transformation of individuals, groups, and
organizations.
ROBERT ROSENBAUM is now a psychologist at Kaiser Permanente
Medical Center, Oakland, CA, and assistant clinical professor, University
of California, San Francisco. He was earlier head of the Department of
Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
LELAND VAN DEN DAELE is dean of the School of Professional Psychol-
ogy at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA.
ESTHER NZEWI is professor of clinical psychology at the California Insti-
tute of Integral Studies.
Summary
Psychological literature on trauma usually focuses on pathology
that results from trauma and pays little attention to positive out-
comes. This article presents a phenomenological inquiry into the
experiences of a profoundly traumatized group of people—parents
whose son or daughter has been murdered—to assess if they were
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AUTHORS’ NOTE: This article is based on Finding the Plentifulness in the Dark-
ness:Transforming Trauma Into Gift, a dissertation submitted by the first author in
partial fulfillment of the degree of doctor of philosophy in clinical psychology at the
California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology , Vol. 42 No.1, Winter 2002 33-70
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