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Sixty million people in the world die every year, leaving loved ones struggling to adjust. We expect to react strongly to the death of a loved one, but loss of a close relationship often creates havoc beyond what we expect. Close relationships anchor us, enrich our lives, and provide some of our greatest joys and deepest satisfactions. Dysregulated emotions and disruption of functioning occur when they die and the feelings are unfamiliar and disconcerting. People often wonder how they can ever accommodate to the new reality. Interestingly most people make this adjustment, often more quickly than they predict (Boerner et al. 2005 ;Wilson 2002 ). Grief is permanent after we lose someone very close, but symptoms usually decrease in frequency and intensity over time and we fi nd ways to reenvision our own lives. However, people suffering from complicated grief (CG) (Shear et al. 2011 ) get lost in acute grief, unable to come to terms with the loss and unable to imagine purpose, meaning, or joy in life without their loved one. The purpose of this chapter is to describe an effi cacy-tested complicated grief treatment (CGT) for the syndrome in which acute grief is complicated and prolonge

Author

M. Katherine Shear

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319071091

Subjects

Medical, Medicine