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Psychosomatic Medicine 24:343-351 (1962)
© 1962 American Psychosomatic Society

Bereavement in Childhood and Adult Psychiatric Disturbance

HERBERT C. ARCHIBALD M.D.1, DOROTHY BELL M.A.1, CHRISTINE MILLER Ph.D.1, and READ D. TUDDENHAM Ph.D.1

1 Mental Hygiene Clinic, Oakland VA Office, and the University of California (R. D. T.), Berkeley, Calif.

Numerous articles and books have presented a mass of material on the "broken home." In the main this concept has proved to be unsatisfactory because the term is ambiguous. The present study has been limited to the definite factor of death of a parent. A sharp reversal was found on comparing the rates of bereavement in childhood in a group of psychiatric patients compared to the general population. In the psychiatric patients the incidence of parental death decreased the older the child. Careful psychiatric study of persons who experienced bereavement in childhood discloses a number of symptoms that are characteristic.

Submitted on July 26, 1961






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