Pictured is the Angel of Grief a statue at Stanford University campus which has been vandalized, on Aug. 18, 2015. The wrist of the statue's left arm has been cut off. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) ...

The statue is even more memorable for its meaning: It serves as an emblem of Jane Stanford’s grief over the loss of her brother Henry Lathrop, who lived with her after Leland Stanford Sr. died ...

STANFORD (CBS SF) -- Vandals ripped off the arm of a century-old marble statue at Stanford University. The Carrara marble arm of the weeping Angel of Grief was discovered missing on August 11.

During the time of my university education and study of great books, theories of grief were based on Freud, who, in his classic volume Mourning and Melancholy, recommended detachment from deceased ...