John Bowlby's Four Stages Of Grief

“John Bowlby and other attachment theorist argue that intense grief reactions are likely to occur at the loss of any person whom one is attached.” (Boyd, 2015). Bowlby and Sander’s predicted that the quality of attachment for someone should be related in some way to the experience of grief. This all goes to say that the stronger the relationship between the mourner and the lost, the longer and heavier the trial of grieving would be. Bowlby had proposed four stages of grief. The four stages are, numbness, yearning, disorganization and despair, and reorganization. He felt that each person who lost someone went through these four stages towards recovery after someone has pass away. I feel as though Bowlby and Sanders had many valid points in