The emotional trauma of bereavement can, on occasion, be translated into physical trauma. Phrases such as "grinding of teeth", "breast-beating" and "tearing one's hair out" have a traditional association with mourning and lamentation.' We report a case where bereavement led directly to an uncommon neurological complication of blunt trauma. A forty year old housewife from the United Arab Emirate...

Traditional harvesting practices frequently result in simplification of the structure and composition within managed forest stands in comparison to their natural counterparts. In particular, loss of heterogeneity within standsmay pose a problem formaintaining biodiversity in perpetuity. In this study, we survey breeding bird diversity and abundance in response to different spatial harvesting pa...

extractthis study explored the grief of 26 adolescents after the death of a parent during the subjects' adolescent years. data collection involved a one-time semi-structured interview. in addition, the adolescents were asked to write and draw about death. the study identified variables and themes that appeared to have possible significance for how adolescents coped. the study conclusions w...

An essential part of the work of mourning is, as Freud points out in 'Mourning and Melancholia', the testing of reality. He says that 'in grief this period of time is necessary for detailed carrying out of the behest imposed by the testing of reality, and ... by accomplishing this labour the ego succeeds in freeing its libido from the lost object', And again: 'Each single one of the memories an...

Overview Definitions of Terms Grief Bereavement Mourning Types of Grief Reactions Anticipatory Grief Normal or Common Grief Stage Models of Normal Grief Patterns of Complicated Grief Prolonged or Complicated Grief as a Mental Disorder Risk Factors for Complicated Grief and Other Negative Bereavement Outcomes Situational: Expected or Unexpected Death Personal: Personality Characteristics Persona...

Possible Lines of Approach • Representative status of IM for the Victorian era, poet laureateship • IM and the culture of mourning, public and private, mourning process, melancholia • Form and structure of IM, composition over 17 years, issue of unity vs. division • Poetics: tetrameter, abba rhyme scheme, repetition, use of apostrophe • Comparison with other elegies (e.g. Milton’s “Lycidas,” Sh...

Even when prognosis is poor and death appears imminent, care of the dying child typically focuses on achieving cure. Parents are often ill-prepared to cope with the grief they experience as their child is dying. Anticipatory mourning allows time to begin grief work prior to the death of a loved one. An exploratory design was used to answer questions in focused semistructured interviews to deter...

The author's interest in the issue of mourning in prison is twofold. As an active hospice volunteer, she became involved with bereavement work, which sensitized her to the issues of loss encountered upon joining the staff at the Maine State Prison. More often than not, the inmates with whom she met had unresolved issues of loss. The impetus for a grief support group came from an inmate who had ...