How Freud helps me to mourn my husband’s death

Augusta Ford was used to dealing with grief and loss in her work as a psychotherapist. Then her husband died. Would her years of experience help in her own grieving process?He died, and I watched, at 5.35am on 8 February this year. It took perhaps 27 minutes, the irreversible slide that moved him from life into death, me beside him, mute with acceptance and resignation. He said: “Get the nurse.” And I realised that he was in the grip of something greater and more potent than himself.