Burned-out Candles.

<p>The present study analyses the grief process towards the loss of a sibling, and its implications on the patient’s social life, focusing the analysis on The Dual Process Model Grief, proposed by Stroebe and Schut (1999). The counselling sessions happened in the Grief Research and Study Centre within the Ana Maria Poppovic Psychology Clinic. The patient was a man on its thirties, married with no children, looking for help to ease the pain that emerged from the loss of his brother, which brought back his past losses, increasing his suffering. The psychotherapeutic process lasted about six months, and consisted in a first moment to pay attention the patient’s inner emotions and feelings, and put it into words for him. Furthering the psychotherapeutic work, his behaviour towards the grief process was interpreted helping him to understand his losses, and redefine his personality, reorganising his inner world cognitive and emotionally.