Psychological and Neuropsychological Interventions in the Mobile Mourning Process

1984 ◽  
pp. 247-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Muir ◽  
William J. Haffey
Keyword(s):  
Mourning Process

scholarly journals Die Rouproses

Curationis ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrika De Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Essential Work ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Loved One ◽  
The Future ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Mourning Process

The mourning process is a normal and universal reaction to loss. Awareness of the loss, confrontation and adaption are the main phases of the mourning process, although each mourner’s reactions are highly individulised. Mourning can be regarded as essential “work” — which can never be escaped. The bond with the deceased must be untied, the mourner must adapt to the new environment without the loved one and then form new relationships. In offering support to mourners one should be there, allow them to express their emotions in their own way and to talk about the deceased and their feelings of guilt. One should also lead them to understand that their reaction is normal and that the work of mourning must be completed. After considerable time sensitive attempts may be made to direct the mourner to the future.

Divorce among Elderly Women: A Growing Social Phenomenon

1988 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 563-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara S. Cain
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Late Life Divorce ◽  
Mourning Process

This exploratory study highlights key psychosocial dimensions of late-life divorce among elderly women. The author discusses three variables — the mourning process, the aging process, and generational attitudes — that make divorce especially difficult for elderly women.

scholarly journals Dressing the dead body

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgitta Nordström
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Mourning Process

My current research focuses on textiles and rites, especially woven textiles for funerals and moments of loss. What active role can a textile such as an infant-wrapping cloth or a funeral pall play in the mourning process? This article will describe the development and current questions that address 1) the infant-wrapping cloth – the textile that is used to dress, clothe, or cover the dead body with particular attention to the question of infant mortality and the material practices of care. 2) The funeral pall that is used at funerals, draped over the coffin or as a body cover at hospital viewing rooms. One example to be presented is Kortedalakrönika (‘The Chronicle of Kortedala’), a collaborative project, woven for a church in Gothenburg. My work is based in artistic practice but opens up several scientific and existential questions.

scholarly journals Strategies to Cope With the COVID-Related Deaths Among Family Members

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Borghi ◽  
Julia Menichetti
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Alternative Good ◽  
Mourning Process

The extraordinary circumstances of deaths during COVID-19 pandemic have been challenging for the deceased's families. This contribution aims to describe some spontaneous strategies that family members may adopt to cope with the loss of a relative for COVID-19. The present reflection derives from the experience of a clinical psychology unit of one of the biggest public hospital in Milan, Italy, which supported 246 families of COVID-19 victims in the 1st days after the loss. Spontaneous strategies used by family members to deal with such a unique mourning process involved: creating alternative good-bye rituals, normalizing the loss, addressing faith and hope, highlighting the perks of isolation, supporting others in need, and delivering the bad news to others. These observed strategies may suggest how to assess and support a “normal” bereavement process during the extraordinary COVID-19 circumstances, in order to prevent further psychological distress.

scholarly journals (Im)Perfect memories in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Magdalena Łapińska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
American Author ◽  
Mourning Process

The article entitled “(Im)Perfect Memories in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn” explores the fallibility of memory as presented in Another Brooklyn, a novel by an African American author Jacqueline Woodson. The text presents the idea that personal memories change due to the passage of time along with the new experiences of an individual, and relates it to the studied novel. Special attention is given to different dimensions of grief and loss presented in the analyzed story. The mourning after the loss of loved ones is explored through the use of concepts such as Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ five stages of grief, the selective amnesia and the idea of continuing bonds. The process of growing up is also briefly considered as a mourning process over losing the innocence and safety provided by childhood. Further, the article presents the hardships of growing up without a mother in an unsafe neighbourhood, the loss of vital friendships and the search of a better life - all introduced through the recollections which occurred after a significant passage of time and the accumulation of experiences which lend themselves to the change of the mindset of the main character.

scholarly journals Midlife - Maturity and Creativity

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
Valeria Egidi Morpurgo
Keyword(s):  
Severe Trauma ◽  
Ageing Process ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Generational Transmission ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Process Loss ◽  
Specific Difficulty ◽  
Mass Murders ◽  
Development Of Tolerance ◽  
Mourning Process

Abstract Midlife is an age of crisis according to many authors, as it sets the subject up against the inevitability of the ageing process, loss, and the limitedness of life. Most authors view midlife as an age of crisis where everything can be staked back into the game. But some other authors have highlighted how midlife is characterised by a new burst of creativity, by new object investments and by a redressing of the balance between narcissism (which decreases) and object investments for which a larger share of the libido becomes available. The Author thinks that it seems worthwhile to make a distinction between midlife, as indicative of a phase of life, and maturity, construed as a psychic position which is relatively independent of age. Therefore, she explores the creativity area of the trans-generational transmission, quoting some psychoanalysts and poets, and introducing a clinical example of the mourning process for losses inherent in the passing of time and the development of tolerance capacities to deal with a change in the balance between the libido and narcissism. Then the Author affords a specific difficulty in transmitting a trans-generational mandate, when the treatment concerns cases of severe trauma, like victims of collective trauma and mass murders. What can be transmitted in these cases if the psychological concatenation between the generations is interrupted and breaks down? How can it be linked up again? The story and re-elaboration by Henri Parens is brought as an example to be studied and commented.

scholarly journals Learning to Live Through Loss: Grief and the Mourning Process

EDIS ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn S. Wilken
Keyword(s):  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Death And Loss ◽  
Mourning Process

FCS-2267, a 5-page fact sheet by Carolyn Wilken, is one in a series of six publications dealing with grief, death, and loss. This publication gives detailed descriptions of the stages of grief and explains how different kinds of deaths may cause different reactions. Also gives specific guidance on how to help someone who is grieving. Published by the UF Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, November 2006.

The mourning process and “living with the dead”: Two case reports and a review of the literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 407-412
Author(s):  
Caterina Bosco ◽  
Lucia Tattoli ◽  
Giancarlo Di Vella ◽  
Francesco Ventura ◽  
Alfredo Verde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Reports ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Mourning Process

Presence, Mourning, and Beauty: Elements of Analytic Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 979-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry C. Markman
Keyword(s):  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Internal Work ◽  
Analytic Process ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Psychic Change ◽  
Mourning Process

Analyst and patient occasionally arrive at moments of heightened meaning and aliveness. These moments can be transformative and lead to psychic change in the patient. They give life and arouse hope, and feel “real” in a new way, though often entailing emotional turbulence. Specific internal work must be done by the analyst to allow for and foster these experiences. This involves a kind of mourning process in the analyst that allows for “presence” and “availability” as described by Gabriel Marcel, and for the “at-one-ment” described by Bion. These transforming moments can be viewed in an aesthetic realm, along the lines of Keats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” This embodies the analytic value of emotional truth. These moments are shared and their emergence is an intersubjective creation. Clinical illustrations show how the internal work of mourning by the analyst through directed introspection allows for presence and availability, and then for shared moments of beauty with the patient.

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