The author uses hermeneutic phenomenology to study the experiences of four women turning toward loss. This thesis focuses on the themes arising out of an Existential Analysis of grief. Her findings (Chapter 4:61-96) are described in terms of a metaphorical labyrinth. “The labyrinth of grief complemented the participants’ experiences of turning toward loss, as it captured the disorienting, devastating, complex, unpredictable, nonlinear, and transformative nature of the phenomenon.”(p. 121)
