PSYC 3490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Attachment Theory, Life Review

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3490
• Professor: Laurie Mc Nelles

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Briefly analyze the processes of awareness of finitude, legitimization of biography, and life review. How are these three processes related to each other: awareness of finitude start to think about their mortality when they reach an age when the ppl who use to be close to them died. Can happen before any real physical jeopardy happens. o ex. Some put it in writing: life review period of self-evaluation, put life into perspective. Contrast the traditional views of bereavement with more contemporary views based on attachment theory: traditional view = death should be (cid:1688)worked thru(cid:1689). Move on, seek new relations: attachment theory = maintain continuing bond with deceased, keeping possessions is normal. Summarize the bereavement process for death of an adult child, a grandchild, a parent, a sibling, and a friend: death of adult child = cild death is most intense grandchild = feel the loss too.