Resumen

SOUSA, Luiza Eridan Elmiro Martins de. Mourning process in gestalt approach: contact and removal, destruction and assimilation. IGT rede [online]. 2016, vol.13, n.25, pp. 253-272. ISSN 1807-2526.

This article brings a reflection and a contribution the field of psychology and related areas about the mourning process, taking base as a Gestalt perspective. The used methodology was a literature review, through a bibliographic exploratory study about the thematic mourning and gestalt therapy, like: Bowlby (1985), Worden (1998), Parkes (1998) , Freitas (2000), D'Assumpção (2001), Franco (2002) and Fukumitsu (2004) and Gestalt therapy: Perls, Hefferline and Goodman (1997), Yontef (1998), Polster and Polster (2001) and Fonseca (1998, 2003). From the discussion of the ideas of the authors, the article shows meanings and senses attributed the mourning process, in addition to the biopsychosocial factors that influence the elaboration. The bereaved needs works your pain of loss, contacting it, wielding it, so that the experience can be assimilated to the self.

Palabras clave : Mourning; Pain; Gestalt therapy.

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