The bereavement therapeutics and its diagnostic criteria: possible contributions of Tatossian

We present the concept that mourning is experienced as an intersubjective phenomenon lived as a loss of a shared world, disrupted by death. When someone loses a loved one, he/she also loses a perspective, and an existential possibility, so that the mourner is left with the need to signify his/her existence, which is not a returning to a previous life. Based on Tatossian ’ s proposition of substitutive-dominant and anticipatory-liberatory care, we propose that bereavement therapy should consider the patients ’ freedom-unfreedom dyad as a criterion for understanding its pathological dimension and for the care the mourner dedicates to its existence.

Source: Psicologia USP - August 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research