While there has been over a century-old history of attempting to delineate and classify complicated forms of grief within thanatology (the scientific study of death) little of this was reflected in ...

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Dear Doctors: My mother and stepfather were married for 42 years when he passed away suddenly. That was a year ago, and she’s still struggling. I talked to my doctor about it, and he said it sounds ...

DEAR ERIC: My cat died in 2013. Everyone said I treated him like a child. He got so sick, so suddenly, it freaked me out so badly. Then my dad died out of nowhere in 2018. I wanted to die to be with ...

(Updated Sept. 26, 2014) An intervention specifically targeting symptoms of complicated grief, a debilitating state of prolonged, acute grief, is superior to a treatment used for depression, a new ...

Last month marked the 10 th anniversary of my father-in-law’s death. He died of pancreatic cancer, just two years after his diagnosis. The short time we had was a whirlwind of doctors’ appointments, ...

Dear Doctors: My mother and stepfather were married for 42 years when he passed away suddenly. That was a year ago, and she’s still struggling. I talked to my doctor about it, and he said it sounds ...