Rather than from the viewpoint of pathology this article presents the gifts a child born after loss can receive because of the deceased sibling's existence. The purpose of this article is to present a different perspective on children born into a family who have experienced loss and trauma. In the face of meaning suspension, it is proposed that the clinical setting allows the resumption and re-signification of the interrupted narratives, against a new life-world opened on the outside of the horizon of theoretical predeterminations.

It is an experience that begins with the abrupt suppression of the other as corporeality, which breaks the habitual meanings of the life-world. When we submit the phenomenon of bereavement to epoché, we find evidence of intersubjectivity. This study aims to present bereavement in this perspective, and its implications for clinical psychology. Phenomenological-existential psychology studies the phenomena as lived experiences in the world, contributing with the thought on the experiential and pathic character of bereavement.

Not only the cultural context but also the clinical psychology has profoundly impacted its understanding. The comprehension of bereavement has undergone profound changes in its theoretical and practical aspects, with relevant repercussions in the recent version of DSM.

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