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Processing Altered Grief

The isolation and restrictions from covid19 have left a residue of regret for those who lost a relative and could not either be with them...

Making Sense of COVID19 death and grief

The word 'bereaved' means being deprived of, or being robbed. How do we process being robbed of a family member who had so much life yet...

CURRENT WORLD SITUATION....

What is happening? March, 2020. We find ourselves in very tough times. All of our lives across the globe, in some way, have changed in...

So much to be learned, grief from violent acts

'Living with grief brought by mass shootings As Congress struggles to address the issue of gun violence, "CBS This Morning" wanted to...

The Sociology of Stress: An Important Consideration

In The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder by Horwitz and Wakefield [2007], the authors...

Conflicting Emotional Culture

Societies have different norms for expressing emotions and vary in expectations for expressing these emotions and in regulating them....

Medicalization of Grief: Normal and Abnormal Labels

It is important to realize how much death and grief have been medicalized over the last few decades. This is not a criticism, rather, a...