ABSTRACT
In drawing together ideas from stress research, crisis studies and loss research a new and more satisfactory conceptual field has emerged – the field of Psychosocial Transitions.
91Such situations are seen as turning points for better or worse psychosocial adjustment. They often constitute natural experiments of great theoretical and practical importance. Grief is seen as a process of ‘realization’ by means of which affectional bonds are severed and old models of the world and the self given up. It tends to be avoided and accounts for resistance to change and depressive reactions to change.
