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Article: Grief
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Grief
OVERVIEW
Robert Kastenbaum
ACUTE
Kenneth J. Doka
ANTICIPATORY
Joan Beder
CHILD'S DEATH
Reiko Schwab
DISENFRANCHISED
Kenneth J. Doka
FAMILY
Reiko
Schwab
GENDER
Kenneth J. Doka
SUICIDE
Norman L. Farberow
THEORIES
Henk Schut, Margaret Stroebe, Wolfgang Stroebe
TRAUMATIC
Lillian M. Range
OVERVIEW
A suffering, a distress, a wret
chedness, a pain, a burden, a wound. These were among the meanings associated with the word
grief
in its premodern French origin. The term also referred to wrongs and injuries that have been inflicted upon an individual by others, thereby providing the related word
grievance.
There are still other associations:
greeffe, grefe,
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