Coping with Anger and Aggression in Mourning

Bibliographic Data

ID13629747
AuthorsP C Rosenblatt (0000-0002-5283-2736, corresponding author), Douglas A Jackson, Rose P Walsh
Year1973
Volume3
Issue4
Pages271-283
Publication date1973-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/mnmj-g1qn-05u1-wvpa
OpenAlexW2089977593
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited16

Content analysis of ethnographic materials was used to study means of coping with anger and aggression by bereaved persons. It appears that anger and aggression by bereaved persons is reduced in societies where ritual specialists are used in the period up to and including initial body disposal. In societies where there are institutionalized patterns of anger and aggression, the problem of keeping the anger and aggression channeled seems to be dealt with by the use of customary isolation or marking of the bereaved. Implications of these data for bereavement processes of Americans are discussed

Aggression · Anger · Coping (psychology · Isolation (microbiology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Clinical Psychology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology

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