This article provides a literature review of Russian and foreign research, examines the phenomenon of loss of emotional attachment in order to determine the key features of the normative and atypical processes of living with the loss of emotional attachment, as well as general patterns of the grieving process.
loss, grief, realization of meaning, indicators of life satisfaction, loss of emotional attachment, self-transcendence
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