Mourning

Mourning refers to the psychological process of coping with the death of a loved one, configuring a template of changing grief, altering the sacrifice of new meaning, absence, and loss. In psychology, mourning is understood as adaptation to loss. In emotional disorders, mourning is mainly recognized as the detachment of emotional attachment to the lost object. Freud classified mourning as the emotional detachment from a lost person, after which a new relationship can be formed. An absence of grief serves as a compressive builder of positive closure. For example, one of the numerous and needed functions of a memorial service is to provide a space for people to begin mourning.