Grieving Beyond Gender by Doka Kenneth J. Martin Terry L

Author:Doka, Kenneth J.,Martin, Terry L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2011-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Intuiting–feeling

Hence, whether one is primarily a thinker or a feeler determines the nature of his or her experiences and influences his or her expressions of those experiences. Also, the pairings of functions also influence experience and expression. Complementary pairings would include

Thinking–sensing

Feeling–intuiting

Sensing–thinking

Intuiting–feeling

These complementary combinations of functions enhance the degree to which one is an intuitive or instrumental griever. While the thinking–feeling or feeling–thinking functions influence the pattern of grieving, the other pair of functions plays an important role in the initial awareness of loss. Grievers who have sensing as either their dominant or associative function are more likely to focus on the details of the event, while intuiting types get a general impression of the loss.

For example, grievers whose primary function is thinking and subordinate function is sensing (or the reverse) are more likely to experience and express grief near the extreme of the instrumental pattern since, as thinkers, they cognitively process the details of the loss presented by their sensing function. These grievers are less likely to rely exclusively on cognition as they process the loss, since the initial awareness is grounded more in an impression than in detail.

On the other hand, grievers with feeling as the dominant function, complemented by intuiting (or vice versa) will digest the loss mostly as an affective experience, since their initial awareness of the loss is based on an impression instead of centering on details. However, while sensing and intuiting influence patterns of grief, it is important for the reader to view thinking and feeling as the functions most important in determining the individual’s pattern of grief (see Figure 6.1).

In Figure 6.1 the eight Jungian types are arranged along the patterns of the grief continuum. Grievers whose dominant function is either thinking or feeling are found near the extremes of the instrumental and intuitive pattern of grief, respectively. Blended grievers have either sensing or intuiting (with thinking or feeling serving as associative functions) as their dominant functions and are found more toward the middle of the continuum. These grievers still follow one of the patterns, but their reactions—experiences, expressions, and primary adaptive strategies—do not as easily identify them as either instrumental or intuitive grievers. But pairing the associative function of thinking with sensing will intensify those elements of the blended pattern of an instrumental nature. The same is true if the pairing is intuiting–feeling rather than intuiting–thinking.

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