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The book that introduced the five stages of grief
1969Steady paceMelancholic
What it is about
Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross interviewed terminally ill patients and described five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. She argued that doctors and families should listen to dying people. The stages were later applied to grief in general.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who want to understand grief and dying.
What you will get
The five stages are often misread as a fixed sequence.
On Death and Dying Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Death · Grief · Psychiatry
Length
260 pages · ≈ 7 h
More about this book
Characters
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her patients.
Setting
Hospitals in the 1960s.
What makes it different
A landmark in how Western medicine thinks about dying.
Feel
Humane, serious and gentle.
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