MEDRADSC 3DH3 Lecture 4: Grief
10 Sep 2017
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Frequency and duration shifts over time, the first 2-3 years > more often, longer later on > less often and short time each and intense. Our attachments are both tangible and intangible. When we lose something, or someone we (cid:494)re attached to, we grieve. Loss of id & a sense of belonging. Grief: state of having experienced a death and the process of integrating the, personal feelings, emotions and reactions to loss. Anticipatory grief don(cid:495)t have a say over it. Mourning in public action (the private and public rituals, customs, practices: all grief but the physical death has not yet occurred and processes to loss, failing most culturally, gather and sing. Disenfranchised grief: a relationship may not be recognized, loss may not be recognized, society does not give the grieving person the role of mourner, ways the individual grieves. Social context for loss: ritual of mourning, grief responses, fact of being bereaved.
