Pathological mourning: Subtypes and the need for specific therapeutic interventions

Abstract

The paper presents a clinical model of different subtypes of pathological mourning and the intrapsychic and intersubjective conditions that initiate and maintain them. Specific psychotherapeutic interventions for each subtype are proposed, taking into account that an intervention that would produce change for a certain subtype will reinforce pathology for another one.

Keywords:

• mourning
• depression
• narcissism