Essay Grief, Loss, and Survival
Complicated Grief and Why It Differs From Ordinary Mourning
Formal recognition in 2022 helps clinicians distinguish disabling grief from ordinary mourning.
Mended & Heard
Grief, Loss, and Survival
The DSM-III introduced a bereavement exclusion for major depressive disorder in 1980, but it did not establish a separate category for atypical grief.