In 1917, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay titled ‘ Mourning and Melancholia’ . In this essay, he explains his theory on the psychological process of grief as a response to the loss of a loved one. He argues that even though mourning and melancholia share some similarities, they differ. Mourning Sigmund Freud explains that “mourning involves grave departures from the normal attitude to life” and “the reaction to the loss of someone who is loved, contains the same painful frame of

This theory was first developed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1969. It’s first name was ‘The five stages of death’. Since then it has been known by various names and the details of this theory have also changed. Kubler-Ross believed that individuals go through the following five stages of death as a way to come to terms with their own death. Later on it was changed to apply to anyone that is going through grief. First Stage: Denial and Isolation In this stage, the individual be