The Grieving Brain
$25.95
What does grief do to our brain? Using an integrative view of clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience, Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, author of The Grieving Brain, shares her decades of research on how our brain reacts to the loss of a loved one and how it adjusts to life without that person, shedding new light on the trajectory of grieving while dispelling popular, unscientific models of grief. In addition, Dr. O’Connor will address how empirical research (including neuroscience) has helped to define prolonged grief disorder and how targeted psychotherapy is an effective treatment for this disabling condition.
Continuing Education
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Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Describe how the neurobiological attachment system encodes relationship bonds in humans and pair-bonded animals, using neurochemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and endogenous opioids.
- Define prolonged grief disorder and describe psychological and neuroscientific data that identify it.
- Explain how rumination and avoidance can prolong the process of updating the prediction (i.e., learning) that the deceased is no longer available.
