[The moral of Laszlo Nemeth's Grieving Process - The role of the novel, Mourning, in trauma processing].

While examining art psychology, it is often experienced that heavy traumas have a highly incentive role on work of arts. It is an exceptional precedent, when a work is born with the intention of processing a trauma, what is also documented by the author himself. Mourning, which is known to be "the most perfect" work of Németh, was written with this intention, when László Németh and his wife lost their three and a half years old daughter, Pocó, in 1930. The period around the experience of loss has never been studied with a focus on processing trauma. This study will research this topic. Examining the novel, Mourning and the relevant work- and biographical documents with the method of psychobiography it can be stated, that László Németh experiencing an acute loss, the unmet needs of his own grief while being in the creative writing process, his unprocessed previous traumas coming to the front, and extreme character portrayal of the novel were presumably obstructive, while the support of his wife and his cousin's similar experience of loss through its role in encouraging the creative process were supporting in processing the trauma. The novel Mourning offers a genuine portrayal of the emotional ups and downs and the looming isolation, as well as of the role of the community experienced during bereavement. In 1931, it is through the words of a peasant woman that László Németh conveys his message, which is still relevant today. The message of the uniqueness of bereavement helps to prevent the grief from becoming the "disease of pride".