http://popsych.org/does-grief-help-recalibrate-behavior/ The Internet's Best Evolutionary Psycholo-guy Wed, 03 Jan 2018 01:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://popsych.org/does-grief-help-recalibrate-behavior/#comment-947 Jesse Marczyk Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:23:24 +0000 http://popsych.org/?p=2944#comment-947 I would recommend reading the linked paper. Hagen deals with those concerns explictly. I would recommend reading the linked paper. Hagen deals with those concerns explictly.

]]> http://popsych.org/does-grief-help-recalibrate-behavior/#comment-946 Sid The Elephant Kid Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:39:31 +0000 http://popsych.org/?p=2944#comment-946 It's been my experience that people who are grieving or who are depressed often become withdrawn and avoid social interactions. So, anecdotally speaking, I don't know if I buy the depression-as-signaling social need hypothesis. Especially in the context of suicide, isn't there often an element of "shame" (or whatever the best term would be) that keeps people who are struggling with depression from being open about their afflictions? It’s been my experience that people who are grieving or who are depressed often become withdrawn and avoid social interactions. So, anecdotally speaking, I don’t know if I buy the depression-as-signaling social need hypothesis. Especially in the context of suicide, isn’t there often an element of “shame” (or whatever the best term would be) that keeps people who are struggling with depression from being open about their afflictions?

]]> http://popsych.org/does-grief-help-recalibrate-behavior/#comment-945 Fred Welfare Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:08:10 +0000 http://popsych.org/?p=2944#comment-945 The psychoanalytic interpretation of grief involves a memory process that eventuates in repression. The problem of grief is that individuals repress their memories and enact distorted attitudes towards others as a transference from the person who died. Therapy is engaged in to uncover memories, like the death of a person someone knew who was a relative or close, to reveal the emotions that have distorted their relationships, attitudes, and feelings towards the world, others, life, etc. Grieving is not necessarily just a repetitive process nor is it necessarily a pattern. It can be and I think that if it is, habituation sets in and the feeling of loss as a shock or overwhelming sense of depression becomes moderate. Grieving can also be the experience of the person who died juxtaposed to one's one guilt and to one's perspectives of others. There is a certain subjectivization of the other person, their life and relationships, and their death. That is, there are subjective attributions made, which may be unwarranted, about others related to the deceased. These subjective feelings about others are picked up by those other persons as new interpretations which alters the social hierarchy. In terms of a person's awareness of their personality problem, symptoms of hate, envy, jealousy, competition, etc, may be related to their repressed knowledge of the deceased and to the relationship s/he had with that person. That relationship may have contained many demeaning attitudes, the knowledge or self-awareness of which was also repressed during the grieving process and is now unconsciously expressed towards the world, life, others, etc. The psychoanalytic interpretation of grief involves a memory process that eventuates in repression. The problem of grief is that individuals repress their memories and enact distorted attitudes towards others as a transference from the person who died. Therapy is engaged in to uncover memories, like the death of a person someone knew who was a relative or close, to reveal the emotions that have distorted their relationships, attitudes, and feelings towards the world, others, life, etc. Grieving is not necessarily just a repetitive process nor is it necessarily a pattern. It can be and I think that if it is, habituation sets in and the feeling of loss as a shock or overwhelming sense of depression becomes moderate. Grieving can also be the experience of the person who died juxtaposed to one’s one guilt and to one’s perspectives of others. There is a certain subjectivization of the other person, their life and relationships, and their death. That is, there are subjective attributions made, which may be unwarranted, about others related to the deceased. These subjective feelings about others are picked up by those other persons as new interpretations which alters the social hierarchy. In terms of a person’s awareness of their personality problem, symptoms of hate, envy, jealousy, competition, etc, may be related to their repressed knowledge of the deceased and to the relationship s/he had with that person. That relationship may have contained many demeaning attitudes, the knowledge or self-awareness of which was also repressed during the grieving process and is now unconsciously expressed towards the world, life, others, etc.

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