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Lucía Peraltilla

(Peru)

I am a Psychologist graduate from the Universidad Católica San
Pablo (UCSP) in Arequipa-Peru, and currently I am studying to
get a master‘s degree in Humanities.
In the past years I worked in different schools as a children and
families counselor, and now I work with college students in the
Psychopedagogical Service of UCSP.

ldcperaltilla@ucsp.edu.pe

Comments to Paul`s article

Within all the indicators that make diffe- situations, may trigger grief in various forms
rences between people, there are some and intensities. That being said, it is evident
transversal experiences that everybody has that everyone has lived through the sorrow
in common. These experiences talk about and probably will go through it in the futu-
something which goes beyond agreements re, each one according to their own parti-
and consensus, and puts in front of us a cularities and different consequences. Very
deep and serious human reality. One of clearly, Loosemore mentions that “how we
those experiences is the grief, the sadness interpret and interact with loss significantly
over the loss, issue that has been highligh- alters our lived experience”, which leads to
ted by Paul Loosemore in the article en- thinking about the importance of questio-
titled Situating grief in redemptive history ning contemporary foundations that put
for the sake of joy, showing a comprehen- the seek of pleasure and the escape from
sive and christian point of view in order to everything that causes pain as ultimate
strengthen a perspective of loss and joy in goals. This perspective has a reductionist
the framework of knowing we are children tinge because it limits the coping strategies
of God. Thanks to a critical analysis, the of the person and creates an egocentric ap-
article also applies this perspective into proach to life.
the day-to-day work of the psychologist or
counselor who accompanies the client who Taking Charles Taylor and C.S. Lewis, Loose-
suffers, acknowledging the specialists has more considers that there are Horizons of
the necessity of acquiring a solid basis of significance which are objectives and guide
who is the human being and, at the same the moral behavior of the person beyond
time, the responsibility of care for the cli- his personal satisfaction, resulting in three
ent. dimensions of relationship: with oneself,
with the other members of community and
When Loosemore approaches the grief, he with the world and life. These relationships
does not narrow the discussion to the sor- are intertwined and when harmonious they
row of losing a dear one, but includes the are beneficial for the person and for the ex-
sadness that comes when anything that ge- perience of grief and joy. This is where Loo-
nerated joy gets lost. The loss of an object, semore has a comprehensive and transver-
an opportunity, a friendship, among other sal look by recognizing that the Redemptive

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