A Model of Mourning: Change in Schemas of Self and Other
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
- Vol. 38 (2), 297-324
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000306519003800202
Abstract
The mourning process may serve an evolutionary purpose, one that has allowed maximum survival characteristics. By passage through the phases of grief, the bereaved person prepares to make new commitments to others and to accept new personal roles. This passage involves an unconscious change in mental structures of meanings about the self and other people. This paper examines mourning in terms of such person schemas.Keywords
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