RE313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-1: Prolonged Grief Disorder, Family Estrangement, Libido
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The other side of sadness george bonnano. Until recently, most theories about grief and bereavement viewed grief as a kind of progressive work that takes a long time to complete. Bereavement experts have, in fact, used the phrase "grief work" to describe the extensive process that they assume all bereaved people must go through before they can successfully resolve a loss. (page 6) Assumes that grief is more or less the same for everybody and that there is something wrong when people overcome their grief quickly or when they appear to have skipped some of the "stages" of mourning. After many years of studying bereavement, i"ve found no evidence to support any of these ideas. A good deal of what my colleagues and i have found, in fact, suggests a completely different picture of grieving. Bereavement is not one dimensional bereaved people show different patterns or trajectories of grief reactions across time.
