Grief is a normal human reaction to a loss from our life and we usually feel this powerful emotion following an event of significant magnitude such as the death of a loved one. In this post, I would like to propose an adjustment to the theory of grief and grieving first proposed in her book, Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kbler-Ross. According to the Kbler-Ross model, the grieving process involves the individual passing through a number of separate stages in a sequence that eventually ends with the acceptance of the situation. My proposal is that grieving is, in fact, a much longer process than has been traditionally accepted and that the model might be adjusted to include an additional final stage that we may call ‘normalisation’.
Go to post pageDecember 20th, 2011 by Anthony Jones