Biblioterapia e luto: a escrita de si como caminho de ressignificação

Abstract

This article articulates how grief and bibliotherapy — especially through self-writing — can contribute to the re-signification of the mourning process. The research is grounded in classical references such as Bowlby, Kübler-Ross, and Worden, as well as contemporary Brazilian authors, and is characterized as a qualitative study anchored in the autoethnographic method, using reading and personal writing diaries as methodological instruments. The results show that the written or read word has therapeutic and symbolic potential to embrace pain, elaborate absence, and reconstruct identity narratives. It is concluded that bibliotherapy and self-writing constitute accessible and effective practices of care, capable of transforming suffering into meaningful memory and promoting the continuity of life.