Learn about the grief experienced by homicide survivors and how some have found comfort through after-death communication with their loved ones.
About the guest:
My guest Dr. Jan Canty is a psychologist, author, former podcaster, and a homicide survivor. She has written three books related to homicide and grief including her latest book: Rekindled: Healing Grief Through the Science and Experience of After-Death Communication. She shares how she became interested in studying after-death communication through her work supporting homicide survivors, including the scientific basis for these studies. She also discusses The Aftermath Conference: the first-ever national gathering for homicide survivors coming up September 11-13. Learn more at her website:
In this episode:
- How Jan became interested in after-death communication through her work with homicide survivors
- The impact of stigma and taboos about homicide death for survivors
- Why homicide survivors find after-death communication to be helpful and life-changing
- How the experience of after-death communication is often pathologized
- Why reductionistic science can’t fully study something like after-death communication because it can’t be measured
- How to ask questions about after-death communication
- Why grief clinicians need to know more about ADC
- Why these experiences should not be negated or dismissed when patients bring them up
- Suggestions for people struggling with grief after a homicide death
- Homicide deaths are usually complicated by the presence of law enforcement and the media
- Why listening to a homicide survivor is what is needed rather than saying the “right thing”
- Why Jan is planning a national gathering for homicide survivors and their supporters
Links mentioned in this episode:
Resources
- Learn more and Register for The Aftermath Conference
- Help Texts for people experiencing grief
- Book recommendation: What Now? Navigating the Aftermath of Homicide and Suicide by Jan Canty PhD
- Book recommendation: Nothing to Fear by Julie McFadden
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