Anticipatory Grief: A Psychosocial Concept Reconsidered
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 137 (1) , 45-54
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.137.1.45
Abstract
Summary: Formerly anticipatory grief was viewed as a potential coping mechanism for a prospective loss. More recently it has been studied in preventive psychiatry as a determinant of the severity of post-mortem grief. The authors in a critical analysis of methodological and theoretical inconsistencies recommend a reconsideration of the concept within a psychosocial context.Keywords
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