TY - JOUR
T1 - Mourning distinct from melancholia
T2 - The resolution of bereavement
AU - Rubin, Simon Shimshon
PY - 1984/12
Y1 - 1984/12
N2 - The premise that mourning has been satisfactorily completed when symptoms associated with the response to loss subside is rejected. The emphasis on the bereaved's behavioural functioning in adjustment to loss has tended to overshadow the recollected relationship to the deceased as a major dimension in the resolution of loss. Elaborating the two‐track model of bereavement (Rubin, 1981), the author focuses upon the relationship to the representations of the deceased from the object relations point of view. The active relationship between representations of the deceased and the bereaved's self‐representations define resolution of loss. Two cases are presented to illustrate the thesis. 1984 The British Psychological Society
AB - The premise that mourning has been satisfactorily completed when symptoms associated with the response to loss subside is rejected. The emphasis on the bereaved's behavioural functioning in adjustment to loss has tended to overshadow the recollected relationship to the deceased as a major dimension in the resolution of loss. Elaborating the two‐track model of bereavement (Rubin, 1981), the author focuses upon the relationship to the representations of the deceased from the object relations point of view. The active relationship between representations of the deceased and the bereaved's self‐representations define resolution of loss. Two cases are presented to illustrate the thesis. 1984 The British Psychological Society
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U2 - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1984.tb02599.x
DO - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1984.tb02599.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 6518144
AN - SCOPUS:0021701163
SN - 0007-1129
VL - 57
SP - 339
EP - 345
JO - British Journal of Medical Psychology
JF - British Journal of Medical Psychology
IS - 4
ER -