The Grieving Brain

Mary-Frances O’Connor

The Grieving Brain

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Human beings have always grieved after the death of a loved one. In The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O'Connor offers a new insight into one of the most universal human experiences, and explains how our brains try to make sense of the complex enigma that is loss. O'Connor sheds light on what happens when we grieve, and provides ways of understanding love, attachment, and the loss of a loved one.

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Analysis and key concepts

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A neurobiological approach to the study of grief can help us better understand the process

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Bereavement is something that our brain is forced to come to terms with

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Our brain interprets our loved ones as both gone and everlasting at the same time

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Grieving is a type of learning, and as such, requires time and patience

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Grief and grieving are different

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Our loved ones permanently shape our brains, but this does not mean we are unable to move on with our lives

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Take-home message

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Many useful tips to:

  • Understand what happens in our brain when we grieve.
  • Discover why it is so hard to accept that a loved one is gone forever.
  • Cope with the loss of a loved one in a mindful way.
  • See grief as a kind of learning experience.
  • Move on after bereavement, and start to rebuild our life.

Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD is a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist, who has been researching the neurobiology of bereavement for over twenty years. She is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress Lab (GLASS), which studies the effects of grief on the brain and body. O'Connor has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. After she completed an assignment at the UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, she returned to the University of Arizona in 2012. She grew up in Montana and now lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Publishing house:

HarperOne

Year:

2022

Pages:

256

ISBN:

978-0062946232