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Articles on Grief
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Death rituals help us to cope with loss and perhaps even feelings of guilt associated with disposing of a corpse.
Children’s perceptions of death vary with developmental stages. Understanding these is key to helping them normalise their thoughts and feelings when someone they know dies.
How do we deal with people whose emotional responses we don’t understand? Demolition does not have the answers.
In fact, even a happy heart can break.
The risk of developing an irregular heartbeat was 41% higher among those who were grieving a partner’s loss than among those who hadn’t experienced such loss. And this could last up to a year.
January seems to be characterised by deluge of public mourning. But why do we do it?
Privately, we grieve for those we’ve loved. Publicly, we grieve for those we’ve never even met.
As Paris tries to come to terms with what has happened, unified responses to the terror attacks will be crucial.
Would you meet with the people found responsible for the deaths of your family members or friends?
New research aims to bring hope to the often forgotten or stigmatised friends and relatives of those who die from drug or alcohol use.
A growing number of researchers are looking to grief to understand how people will respond to climate change.
The internet and social media has turned a private death into a very public one.
The cricket world has been rocked by the tragic death of 25-year-old Phillip Hughes who lost his life two days after being struck on the back of the head by a cricket ball during a match in Sydney. In…
When I was three years old my brother was born. He had a heart condition, and after being in and out of hospital for the whole of his little life, he died when I was five. The time after he was gone was…
When I read that Robin William’s daughter Zelda was deleting her Twitter and Instagram because of abusive messages in the aftermath of her father’s death, I recalled Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene…
The mounting flowers and candles in Isla Vista mark the mourning of six university students killed in the mass shooting at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and sympathy for the other 13 who…
It’s been ten days since missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The search is continuing over a wide area, with Australia now taking the lead over the…
MATTERS OF THE MIND – a series which examines the clinician’s bible for diagnosing mental disorders, the DSM, and the controversy surrounding the forthcoming fifth edition. Grief is one of the most universal…
The need for grief expression is apparent across history and cultures. But how do we know what works? Since the first empirical study into acute grief by Erich Lindemann in 1944, the modern study of grief…
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Associate Professor, University of New England
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Honorary Research Fellow, Director of Bereavement Services Counselling & Mental Health Clinic, York St John University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
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Professor, Social Work, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor and Chair of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Lakehead University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Professor Emeritus of Death Studies, University of Bath
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Lecturer, The Cairnmillar Institute Melbourne, La Trobe University
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Professor of Sociology, Drake University
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
