RESUMO
PIP: Interest in the present study grew out of the concern for the large number of women who have suffered a perinatal loss at the Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia, a high-risk pregnancy hospital in Mexico. The purpose of the study was to offer high quality psychological treatment while at the same time including a large number of patients. A psychoanalytically-oriented open group was formed for those patients identified as having problems in resolving the mourning process. A total of 15 patients were seen on a weekly basis for 33 sessions of 1 1/2 hours duration each. An average of 5 patients attended each session. The data consist of clinical notes and impressions for each group session, which were divided into 4 stages according to the group progress. The course of resolution of grief of a group of patients with perinatal loss was found to correspond closely to the stages of mourning noted frequently in the clinical literature for individual patients. Suggestions are offered for management of the obstetric patient with perinatal loss. (author's modified)^ieng
