Psychology - Answers The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Funeral Service Psychology - Answers The study of human behavior as related to funeral service
Bereavement - Answers The act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of grief
Mourning - Answers An adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and
helps in the reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved
Grief - Answers An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss that is involved in the work of mourning
Thanatology - Answers "The study of death, especially the medical, emotional, and final problems
associated with dying"
Thanatophobia - Answers "An irrational, exagerated fear of death"
John Bowlby (1) - Answers author of Attachment Theory
John Bowlby (2) - Answers "was a psychoanalist that subscribed to Freud's theory of Personality
involving the Ego, SuperEgo and Id. He tried to intertwine these concepts with the concept of grief and
he ended up disagreeing with some of the Freudian suppositions, including the Oedipus complex - that
the love for mother derives from sensuous oral gratification. Bowlby wrote a trilogy of books entitled
""Attachment"", ""Separation"" and ""Loss"". In these books, he outlined the Attachment Theory."
Bowlby stated in a 1951 paper the basic premise of the Attachment Theory - Answers """The infant and
young child should experience a warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with his mother (or
permanent mother substitute) in which both find satisfaction and enjoyment"
John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth - Answers believe that the way a child learns to explore the world is by
knowing where the Secure Base of a mother was and they would continually return to that secure base
as they explore the world and Attachments come from a need for security and safety
infants are actually raised in one of three environments - Answers "Secure, Avoidant or
Anxious/Ambivalent"
Bowlby also identified three phases of separation response - Answers " protest (related to separation
anxiety); despair (related to grief and mourning); and denial or detachment (related to defense
mechanisms, especially repression)"
Dr. Engel - Answers Author of Psychomatic Medicine
Dr. Engel believes - Answers loss of loved one is psychologically and is traumatic as being severely
injured. A person must to thru healing after a death
"Manifestations of Normal Grief - Answers Feelings | Physical sensations | Cognitions| Behaviors