Five Days in The Mourning Garden: The Story of Levla (Mourning Process of A Borderline Personality Structure)

Five songs ("My Crying Took Time", "It Suits Us Keep Slient", "Antidepressant Smile", "Levla Quited" and "You Love Him")in the album "The Story of Levla" released by The Model Band were analyzed in the context of the mourning process of “Levla”, who was thought to exhibit borderline personality structure characteristics, after she was abandoned by her beloved. It is seen in the first five songs of the album that the five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance were experienced respectively. It is thought that the borderline structure which experienced the certain stages of the mourning process after separation, externalized the meanings she ascribed towards the relationship she had and the partner she was abandoned by through the lyrics at each stage. The meanings of these lyrics and their emotions were handled in the context of the integrative psychotherapy, the referred content analysis was examined with the analysis method making use of cross theory. In addition, the subjects of the importance of the mourning process after any loss in terms of human psychological health and development, the psychological reactions resulting from the absence of mourning process and the pathological grief are among the topics to be discussed in the presentation content of the study