Pregnancy Loss: Disenfranchised Grief and Other Psychological Reactions
Description:
It is widely acknowledged in the literature that grief is most intense when it is experienced by parents whose children have died. However, as recently as 20 years ago, mothers whose children died at birth or before the pregnancy had reached full term were often dismissed as merely medical patients, and their psychological reactions were not considered or acknowledged by professionals, their friends, or their families. More recently fields such as psychology have recognized that women who have …
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Date:
August 2003
Creator:
Clower, Christen E.
Partner:
UNT Libraries