Mourning, Mummification and Living with the Dead

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1977 English Publisher:Royal College of PsychiatristsJournal:British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 130, pages 23-28 (issn: 0007-1250, eissn: 1472-1465,

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Authors: A, Gardner; M, Pritchard;

doi: 10.1192/bjp.130.1.23

pmid: 831903

Mourning, Mummification and Living with the Dead

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SummarySix cases are reported in which the bereaved kept the deceased's body for periods ranging from one week to ten years.Some relevant anthropological and psychoanalytical observations are discussed. This phenomenon does not appear to have been reported in the literature of Western psychiatry.

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Keywords

Male, Attitude to Death, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Denial, Psychological, Middle Aged, Personality Disorders, Humans, Female, Grief, Aged

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