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Complicated grief is worryingly common, poorly recognised & inadequately treated - what can we do about this?

4th May 2017

Complicated grief is ... More to follow ...

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Kathy Shear workshop on complicated grief: identification (2nd post)

19th June 2015

I wrote a blog post yesterday morning setting the scene for a two day workshop I was about to go to with Professor Kathy Shear on her treatment approach for complicated grief. Well, how did the day go? It was very interesting, inspiring, and also a little too much "simply …

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Kathy Shear workshop on complicated grief: before (1st post)

18th June 2015

I was struck by a couple of papers on grief that I read last year. One was Kathy Shear & colleagues' "Treatment of complicated grief in elderly persons: a randomized clinical trial" and the other was Bryant et al's "Treating prolonged grief disorder: a randomized clinical trial." I was impressed …

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Recent research: six studies on the long-term effects of abuse & deprivation

20th August 2009

Here are half a dozen studies on the long-term effects of various forms of abuse & deprivation. Paras et al systematically reviewed the association between a history of sexual abuse and a lifetime diagnosis of a somatic disorder. They found significant links with functional gastrointestinal disorders, nonspecific chronic pain, psychogenic …

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Recent research: a mixed bag of six papers on anxiety

19th February 2009

Here are half a dozen papers with anxiety relevance. The first couple are about the interaction between genetic vulnerability (or resilience) and childhood experience. The Stevens et al paper is an update on the large body of research looking at psychological genetic vulnerability/resilience in macaque monkeys and how this interacts …

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Friendship, life planning, & expressing emotions

11th January 2009

Yesterday and today are a check-in time with my friend Larry. I've written in a previous blog post how Larry and I have met every three or four months for many years specifically to review how our lives are going and to plan and prioritize our goals for the next …

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Edie: New year intentions

1st January 2009

Sadness. I woke feeling sad ... aching in my chest and then in my gut. Not awful, just like a dull toothache, or a hurt, a wound. Yesterday when I visited my mother in the Stroke Unit of Liberton Hospital, one of the more senior nurses came up to me …

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Recent research: six studies on depression – bereavement, pregnancy, bipolar disorder, suicide, & stress in hospital staff

11th December 2008

Five of these six studies are from last month's American Journal of Psychiatry. Kendler et al discuss the many similarities and only occasional differences between bereavement-related and other life event-related depression - an issue explored further in Maj's editorial. Li et al show that depression in pregnancy (exacerbated further by …

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