Mourning Women

Unresolved grief and mourning in Navajo women.

Grief and mourning are normal psychological processes in response to loss. They are the means whereby individuals psychologically let go and free themselves from the bonds of attachment to others. Although characteristic stages and phases of this process can be discerned, there is considerable cultural patterning and shaping of this experience. Case examples are given of Navajo women who experi...

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

[Loss and mourning].

The human being needs ties to grow and develop. When some of these ties are broken a period of great intensity arises that we call mourning. If the loss is radical and definitive, as in the case of death, all of the person's dimensions are affected (the physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, social and spiritual dimensions), to such an extent that the person can feel unable to overcome th...

Mourning Dr Welby.

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