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It was mentioned as a pioneering work in the understanding of grief stages, but modern science has shown that not everyone experiences them all or in a linear fashion.
Some of the myths and misunderstandings arrived from the beautiful work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychologist who wrote the famous book on Death and Dying...
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Episode: The Science & Process of Healing from Grief
It was mentioned as a pioneering work in the understanding of grief stages, but modern science has shown that not everyone experiences them all or in a linear fashion.
Some of the myths and misunderstandings arrived from the beautiful work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychologist who wrote the famous book on Death and Dying...
The different stages of grief very quickly are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
In the Kubler-Ross model denial is always the first stage and denial is just as it sounds this disbelief it cannot be there's no way a refusal to accept the new reality that the person or animal is gone.
And we now know based on neuroimaging based on more in-depth psychological evaluation and frankly more researchers and clinicians moving into this area and observing that while much of what Kubla Ross described does hold true it's not always the case.
I do want to tip our hats to the incredible work of Elizabeth Kubla Ross by no means am I or do other researchers try and discount her incredible contributions but I think nowadays we have a different and frankly a better understanding of what the grief process is like and as a consequence better tools to move through grief.
