The space of bereavement in Israel, and even more so since October 7, is characterized by ongoing loss, uncertainty, waiting, and repeated exposure to trauma. Mourning processes that have stopped, split, and are experienced as having no clear beginning or possibility of certainty and closure. On this evening of the "Safe Harbor" unit - a training center for the treatment and rehabilitation of victims of kidnapping and ambiguous loss, we focused on the discourse on disruptions in the grieving process, their clinical and social meanings, on the discussion of therapeutic responses, and on the need to develop a language and tools for dealing with these situations.
We dealt with principles and clinical discourse and sought to ask:
What does mourning look like when its basic conditions have been disrupted?

What is necessary to enable support, accompaniment, and rehabilitation in situations of bereavement under exceptional conditions?