Detachment revisited: the child's reconstruction of a dead parent.
During the year following a parent's death, children in a community-based sample were found to have developed an inner construction of the dead parent. This continued, though altered, relationship appeared to facilitate their coping with the loss and with accompanying changes in their lives. Implications for understanding the bereavement process and for interventions focusing on detachment are discussed.
Silverman
P R
PR
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Nickman
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Worden
J W
JW
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001364:Awareness; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory