O luto materno pela perda de um filho: um estudo do processo do luto durante a psicoterapia breve

Abstract

This doctorate thesis has as proposals, the analysis of the reactions and feelings of the mourner mothers, mourn that is caused by the loss, by death, of an young, adult son. A comparative study of those reactions and feelings is being proposed, there fore the death by cancer ar, a sudden, serions and deadly disease. It has been employed, as a research instrument, the brief psychotherapy of these mourner mothers, with thirty assistance sessions. Six cases.have been studied, ali of them based on the psychoanalysis and A qualitative methodology in data analysis and the study of these cases has beenused. psychodynamic theoric reference. The results mark the presence of the folIowing emotional sings on the mourners manifestation: Guilt, state of shock, denial, despair, psychosomatic manifestations, belief that death is a cruel separation, like a punisyment, importance of the religious experiences mainly on the catholic religion wish to accept the loss and make changes