Freud (1917) in his article 'Mourning and Melancholia' suggested that the 'work of mourning' is to sever the attachment bonds to the 'non-existent object'. This idea of the bereavement process as being some kind of staged 'grief work' has saturated the research literature for much of the past century (Bowlby, 1981; Glick, Weiss and Parkes, 1974; Lindemann, 1944; Shuchter and Zisook, 1993; Stroe...