A House of Pain: Coping and Support after Catastrophic Loss
A House of Pain: Coping and Support after Catastrophic Loss
Joanne Cacciatore · 82 minutes
Joanne Cacciatore sets out what catastrophic loss does to the whole self, and Vanessa Juth's finding that social constraints predicted poorer psychological and physical health. She tracks the bereavement exclusion shrinking then vanishing across the DSM, and her own study where 42% of bereaved parents could have met prolonged grief disorder criteria a decade on. She reports what grievers name as good support, pets and animals outranking every human group, and her case that the system needs changing, not grievers.
Death and dying Grief and loss