There are several ways, clinically, to approach grief after perinatal death, including from a
humanistic or a medicalized perspective. The death of a baby is complicated. The loss is an
embodied one that incites deep psychological wounds and can be isolating for many
parents. Parents process their grief experiences within a sometimes oppressive social
context that either sees their expressions of loss as a normal response to an abnormal
tragedy or as pathology. Several diagnostic categories have been proposed relative to the …