The bereavement therapeutics and its diagnostic criteria
possible contributions of Tatossian
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https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6564e180185Keywords:
bereavement, clinical practice, psychotherapy, TatossianAbstract
The DSM-5 enlarge the discussion about the differentiation between normal and complicated bereavement. Based on the work of Arthur Tatossian and on a phenomenological comprehension of bereavement, this article aims to discuss the clinical practice with bereaved patients and its relations to diagnostics issues. 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.
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