The psychological process that a person goes through after a significant loss (death of a loved one, breakup of a relationship, loss of job or status) is a person’s adaptation to loss. The main task of the grieving process is to integrate the experience of loss into the new reality of life, to find new meanings and opportunities for the continuation of significant relationships and connections, to continue to productively engage in new activities. F.E. Vasilyuk described the main function of grief as the creation of the memory of the Other, the birth of a “new” Self, reconciliation and reconciliation of the past and the real world (without the deceased person). There are stages of grief (stages of grief / stages of grief). Stages of the grieving process (stages of grief work). As a rule, there are: the stage of shock and numbness, the stage of search, the stage of acute grief, the stage of “residual tremors”, the stage of completion.