The course of normal grief

Shuchter, Stephen R.; Zisook, Sidney

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511664076.003

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“…For example, some argue that persistent emotional involvement with the deceased often represents healthy adaptation (cf. Shuchter & Zisook, 1993), while other investigators seem to suggest the opposite .…”

Section: The Obscurity Of Criteria For "Normal" Versus "Pathological"mentioning

confidence: 91%

“…It seems unlikely that any experienced task force behind the formulation in DSM-IV would hold the view that intense grieving ceases after 2 months. It is well-accepted in the scientific literature that intense grief for most people persists far beyond this period (Parkes, 1986;Shuchter & Zisook, 1993). Rather, the intention behind the DSM formulation may be to indicate the possibility that symptoms reaching the level of a full-blown major depressive episode after 2 months may need clinical intervention.…”

Section: Pathological Grief As a Possible Category Of Mental Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bereavement is associated with detrimental physical health consequences (Stroebe & Stroebe, 1987), and yet, typically, these feature neither in definitions of pathological grief, nor in the DSM system. Different from the above is the formulation of Zisook, DeVaul, and Click (1982), Zisook and Lyons (1990), and Shuchter and Zisook (1993), who define complicated grief reactions in terms of the process of resolution of grief (unresolved grief), thereby referring to either absent, delayed, intensified, or prolonged aspects of uncomplicated bereavement. Although they argue that the concept has clinical validity, they acknowledge that it is overly simplistic, since total resolution is rarely found (Shuchter & Zisook, 1993).…”

Section: Lack Of Consensus In Defining Pathological Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the classification and diagnosis of pathological grief

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Son

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et al. 2000

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Section: The Obscurity Of Criteria For "Normal" Versus "Pathological"mentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Pathological Grief As a Possible Category Of Mental Disordermentioning

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On the classification and diagnosis of pathological grief

Stroebe

Son

Stroebe

et al. 2000

Clinical Psychology Review

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“…There are at least three empirical findings that provide support for this hypothesis. First, in the negative domain, reminders disrupt people's adaptation to bereavement and, as a result, intensify grief (Shuchter and Zisook 1993). Second, volitional disruption of daily activity has been shown to produce long-term changes in well-being (Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, and Schkade 2005).…”

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Enhancing the Television-Viewing Experience through Commercial Interruptions

Nelson¹,

Meyvis²,

Galak³

2009

J Consum Res

126

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Consumers prefer to watch television programs without commercials. Yet, in spite of most consumers' extensive experience with watching television, we propose that commercial interruptions can actually improve the television-viewing experience. Although consumers do not foresee it, their enjoyment diminishes over time. Commercial interruptions can disrupt this adaptation process and restore the intensity of consumers' enjoyment. Six studies demonstrate that, although people preferred to avoid commercial interruptions, these interruptions actually made programs more enjoyable (study 1), regardless of the quality of the commercial (study 2), even when controlling for the mere presence of the ads (study 3), and regardless of the nature of the interruption (study 4). However, this effect was eliminated for people who are less likely to adapt (study 5) and for programs that do not lead to adaptation (study 6), confirming the disruption of adaptation account and identifying crucial boundaries of the effect.P eople like watching television, but they dislike watching television commercials. Indeed, entertainment technology is substantially guided by a nearly universal desire to remove disruptions. Consumers will pay extra to subscribe to broadcasts, invest in technological innovations, or purchase recordings in pursuit of an uninterrupted viewing experience. On the one hand, given that television viewing is one of the most popular leisure activities, consumers could be expected to have the knowledge and experience to maximize their enjoyment. This suggests that removing commercials indeed increases consumers' enjoyment of the shows they are watching-as it often probably does. On the other hand, the decision to remove commercials requires consumers to accurately forecast the hedonic consequences of that decision, and this type of forecasting falls in the domain of a particularly common human shortcoming. People tend to be poor at predicting how their enjoyment of an experience will progress over time and how changes in the

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“…Although bereavement theorists are hesitant to provide timelines for normal grief patterns, this stage is thought to typically last a number of weeks, generally 6 to 8 (Humphrey & Zimpfer, 1996;Worden, 1991). Once the permanency of the loss becomes a perceptual reality, the bereaved typically is thought to experience an extended period of disorganization and despair which can last several months (Shuchter & Zisook, 1993). Finally, as the intensity of loss-related emotion begins to subside, the bereaved individual enters a phase of reorganization in which he or she must learn to function in an environment without the deceased and come to a new sense of the lost relationship (Bowlby, 1980;Parkes, 1996;Worden, 1991).…”

Section: Foundations Of Grief Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%