Continuing Bonds: Commemorating and Connecting With the Person Who Died

Some of the earlier beliefs regarding the relationship between a person grieving and the one who died had been based on Freud’s famous paper, “Mourning and Melancholia.” Freud claimed, “For grief to be resolved, emotional energy must be withdrawn from the deceased and reinvested in something new.” He went on to say, “One must sever the tie, end the relationship.”