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    • Psychology
    • Symbolic Studies

    Background:

    • Difficulty symbolizing absence can impede adolescent mourning.
    • Unresolved grief can stem from failures in symbolic processing.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the therapeutic process of mourning through symbolic enactment.
    • To examine the role of relationships in symbol formation and reparation.

    Main Methods:

    • Case study analysis of a patient with difficulties in symbolizing absence.
    • Exploration of symbolic enactments and synchronistic events.
    • Application of Segal's theory on symbol formation as reparation.

    Main Results:

    • The patient successfully completed a mourning ritual for her father after adolescent loss.
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    • Symbol formation was demonstrated as an emergent process within relationships.

    Conclusions:

    • Symbolization is crucial for mourning and psychological reparation.
    • Symbols represent relationships and emerge from interactive, multi-layered contexts.
    • Therapeutic relationships foster the development of meaningful symbols for unresolved loss.