“It is generally assumed that the principal emotional response to a significant loss is grief. Certainly sadness is usually a predominant feature and can feel overwhelming. As Freud suggests, and as is acknowledged in most of the modern literature on the subject, grief and sadness are not mitigated by counselling. The only relief is the passage of time. Articulating the sadness may be somewhat helpful but, very often, the hopelessness and despair that accompany a client’s realisation of the finality of death are deep enough to appear untouched by the methods of counselling, however sensitively offered.”
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How my heart sings 