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ERIC Number: EJ477173
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Publication Date: 1994
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Dissociative Functions in the Normal Mourning Process.
Kauffman, Jeffrey
Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, v28 n1 p31-38 1993-94
Sees dissociative functions in mourning process as occurring in conjunction with integrative trends. Considers initial shock reaction in mourning as model of normal dissociation in mourning process. Dissociation is understood to be related to traumatic significance of death in human consciousness. Discerns four psychological categories of dissociative functioning in processing of death. (Author/NB)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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