A case study of psychiatric intervention for t*.-. sisters whose brother is dying of leukemia is presented. The therapeutic technique attempted to deal with the threatened loss by a forthright approach to the reality situation, encouraging uimmunizing" discussions, allowance for catharsis without severe regression, emphasis on reality orientation, and direct initiation and enhancement of mourni...

This study aims to analyse the 19th-century American author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem “The Lunatic Girl” within framework of loss, mourning, melancholia and madness. The paper argues that female character experiences loss her boyfriend mourning grows into a form as she becomes unable process work remains at stage denial, first grief. That is why waits for return lover seashore...

Abstract In an age of social and digital media, users’ engagements with (social) media related to death, dying mourning vary widely across different cultural contexts changing platforms. Based on the discussion selected examples, I illustrate how vary, depending narrative positions that sharers take up as tellers , co-tellers or witnesses shared stories. As will argue, potential limits such can...

This study addresses the socio-economic impact of AIDS on rural livelihoods in Benue State, Nigeria, where HIV prevalence is 9.3% but the number of AIDS cases is still relatively low. About 6% of the study households had experienced illness and death classified as AIDS, and reported high costs in terms of expenditures and time spent on care, funerals and mourning. These demands on time affected...

The present functional neuroimaging study focuses on the iconography of mourning. A culture-specific pattern of body postures of mourning individuals, mostly suggesting withdrawal, emerged from a survey of visual material. When used in different combinations in stylized drawings in our neuroimaging study, this material activated cortical areas commonly seen in studies of social cognition (tempo...