Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views.

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dc.contributor.advisorDawes, Andrewen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Amanda Tweedieen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-10T08:14:05Z
dc.date.available2014-12-10T08:14:05Z
dc.date.issued1982en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThere is dissention among psychoanalysts about mourning in childhood, including the criteria appropriate to define mourning, the intrapsychic processes of mourning, the ways these manifest in grief and the factors affecting the outcome of childhood bereavement. In order to place the controversies in context, research on adult mourning, both psychoanalytic and empirical, is first reviewed. Psychoanalytic contributions on childhood mourning, with particular reference to parent loss are then examined, and it is .contended that Klein's theoretical formulations have been under utilised in illuminating childhood bereavement reactions. Questions raised but unanswered by the psychoanalytic literature on childhood parent loss are considered-to be whether the loss of a primary love object has specific repercussions, either in affecting mourning or the child's ongoing development in the parent's absence; whether the therapeutic relationship has been necessary to facilitate mourning in the case-reports discussed; whether generalisations are being made from an unrepresentative sample; and what role cognitive conceptions of death have in affecting bereavement reactions.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSmith, A. T. (1982). <i>Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9949en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSmith, Amanda Tweedie. <i>"Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1982. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9949en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSmith, A. 1982. Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Smith, Amanda Tweedie AB - There is dissention among psychoanalysts about mourning in childhood, including the criteria appropriate to define mourning, the intrapsychic processes of mourning, the ways these manifest in grief and the factors affecting the outcome of childhood bereavement. In order to place the controversies in context, research on adult mourning, both psychoanalytic and empirical, is first reviewed. Psychoanalytic contributions on childhood mourning, with particular reference to parent loss are then examined, and it is .contended that Klein's theoretical formulations have been under utilised in illuminating childhood bereavement reactions. Questions raised but unanswered by the psychoanalytic literature on childhood parent loss are considered-to be whether the loss of a primary love object has specific repercussions, either in affecting mourning or the child's ongoing development in the parent's absence; whether the therapeutic relationship has been necessary to facilitate mourning in the case-reports discussed; whether generalisations are being made from an unrepresentative sample; and what role cognitive conceptions of death have in affecting bereavement reactions. DA - 1982 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1982 T1 - Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views TI - Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9949 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/9949
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSmith AT. Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1982 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9949en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherClinical Psychologyen_ZA
dc.titleChildhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views.en_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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