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The Five Stages Of Grief In The Dying Process

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It was the father of psychology, Sigmund Freud, who first proposed the concept of grief. In his writings on the subject, he “proposed that the mourner had the task of detaching their libido/emotional energy from the deceased and sublimating it into other areas of their lives” (Granek, 2010, p.51). Since the introduction of grief, several psychologists have explored the subject with the most notable contributions coming from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. As a physician, Kubler-Ross encouraged terminally ill patients to speak about their feelings towards death. Based on these interactions she proposed there are five stages of grief in the dying process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance (Mahmood, 2016). While most individuals may

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