source of quote: \"wenig Freunde im Leben\"

16:42 Nov 17, 2018 

I think you're right, Anne. Looking through the rest of the article (why didn't I do this more carefully before??!), I see that there are other such things in quotation marks, representing hypothetical answers that a patient might give. I was stumped by this first one, because the phrase "few friends in life" sounds so weird in English. Forgive me for wasting everyone's time. But in English, don't most of our cliches come from classical literature? ("Neither a borrower nor a lender be...")

16:04 Nov 17, 2018 

These citations sound like items from a questionnaire/scale or from a chart to me, not like classical literature. Could they be taken from some materials they use to 'erarbeiten, welche Vor- und Nachteile der Zustand haben kann', or study materials they previously used to analyse people's ways of grieving?

12:44 Nov 17, 2018 

I've come across this often in German texts. Examples are put in quotation marks. I don't believe it's a citation from some special source, just a way of marking the examples.
The same occurred to me Johanna, but I think the core issue here is relationships with other people aside from the deceased.

01:43 Nov 17, 2018 

- could it be a typo for "wenig Freude im Leben" (considerably more google hits for this expression than for "wenig Freunde im Leben"); "keine neuen Beziehungen" would then also make sense as a second, different disadvantage. "Freude am Leben" is the more common expression, though.