'Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: The rise and fall of the five stages of grief'

[Nearly Sane]

Interesting article.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-53267505

[Steve H]

Bit of a self-fulfilling prophesy, perhaps - we're continually told about the five stages, so when we grieve, we obediently go through them.

[Nearly Sane]

Bit of a self-fulfilling prophesy, perhaps - we're continually told about the five stages, so when we grieve, we obediently go through them.

Which is probably their drawback. As the article covers, the problem is that in calling them stages, It then creates the idea of an onward journey.