title: Initial pastoral visits and communication in depth.
abstract: Pastoral visits undertaken as a way of combining pastoral research on anniversary grief with a systematic plan for home visitation became a learning experience for the pastor. Three verbatim conversations with church members who donated flowers for the communion table during worship are reported. These conversations are reflected upon in light of the phenomena of anniversary grief and in terms of D. W. Winnicott's theory of communication.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry and Religion at Union Seminary in New York City, USA.
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Davis