A variant of guided exposure to mourning for use with treatment resistant patients

J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 1991 Sep;22(3):217-9. doi: 10.1016/0005-7916(91)90019-2.

Abstract

We report a variant of "guided exposure to mourning," designed for use with patients who have proved resistant to other treatments for unresolved, morbid grief. The work provides some indication as to when such behavioral techniques for resolution of morbid grief are likely to prove successful, and when not.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adjustment Disorders / psychology
  • Adjustment Disorders / therapy*
  • Adult
  • Bereavement
  • Desensitization, Psychologic / methods*
  • Extinction, Psychological
  • Grief*
  • Habituation, Psychophysiologic
  • Humans
  • Imagination
  • Male
  • Single Person / psychology