PSY 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Bowlby
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Theories of loss: breaking and continuing bonds following death. Intervention (or how freud is still right some of the time) Mourning *mourning is what we do publicly ie. funerals, obituaries, wakes. De(cid:272)athe(cid:454)is (cid:894)pro(cid:272)ess of letti(cid:374)g go of the e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al i(cid:374)(cid:448)est(cid:373)e(cid:374)t that (cid:455)ou (cid:373)ade (cid:862)let go(cid:863)(cid:895) Grief work emotionally confronting the emotion of a loss/going through the emotional experience, recalling memories, and detaching from the deceased/to no longer be caught up in the emotional investment. *grief is our private internal experience of mourning. Freud (cid:374)e(cid:448)er (cid:373)o(cid:448)ed past his (cid:374)ephe(cid:449)"s death he never detached. Patterns of acute grief: *observations of real people in 1942. Guilt relating to deceased or circumstances of the death. Inability to function as one had before the death. *t(cid:449)o (cid:455)ears later so(cid:373)e relati(cid:448)es still had(cid:374)"t (cid:862)de(cid:272)athe(cid:454)is(cid:863) fro(cid:373) the de(cid:272)eased. Habenstein and lamers (1955) the history of american funeral directing. Habenstein & lamars (1960) funeral customs world over. Milfort (1963) the american way of death.
