THANATOLOGY 2.1
Psychology - Answer- The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Funeral Service Psychology - Answer- The study of human behavior as related to funeral service
Bereavement - Answer- The act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of grief
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THANATOLOGY 2.1
Psychology - Answer- The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Funeral Service Psychology - Answer- The study of human behavior as related to
funeral service
Bereavement - Answer- The act or event of separation or loss that results in the
experience of grief
Mourning - Answer- An adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a
period of time and helps in the reorganization of the life of an individual following a
loss or death of someone loved
Grief - Answer- An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss that is involved in the
work of mourning
Thanatology - Answer- "The study of death, especially the medical, emotional, and
final problems associated with dying"
Thanatophobia - Answer- "An irrational, exagerated fear of death"
John Bowlby (1) - Answer- author of Attachment Theory
John Bowlby (2) - Answer- "was a psychoanalist that subscribed to Freud's theory of
Personality involving the Ego, SuperEgo and Id. He tried to intertwine these
concepts with the concept of grief and he ended up disagreeing with some of the
Freudian suppositions, including the Oedipus complex - that the love for mother
derives from sensuous oral gratification. Bowlby wrote a trilogy of books entitled
""Attachment"", ""Separation"" and ""Loss"". In these books, he outlined the
Attachment Theory."
Bowlby stated in a 1951 paper the basic premise of the Attachment Theory -
Answer- """The infant and young child should experience a warm, intimate, and
continuous relationship with his mother (or permanent mother substitute) in which
both find satisfaction and enjoyment"
John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth - Answer- believe that the way a child learns to
explore the world is by knowing where the Secure Base of a mother was and they
would continually return to that secure base as they explore the world and
Attachments come from a need for security and safety
infants are actually raised in one of three environments - Answer- "Secure, Avoidant
or Anxious/Ambivalent"
Bowlby also identified three phases of separation response - Answer- " protest
(related to separation anxiety); despair (related to grief and mourning); and denial or
detachment (related to defense mechanisms, especially repression)"
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