{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Prolonged Grief Disorder: Holly Prigerson","description":"Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder.  She recalls being \u201ca social scientist [Holly] in room a full of psychiatrists,\u201d who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one.  This led her on a remarkable journey.  Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death.  Prolonged grief is associated with increased risk of suicide and other negative health outcomes.  This accumulation of data over her career led ultimately to the inclusion of Prolonged Grief Disorder first in the ICD, then in the DSM-V.   And yet, despite mountains of evidence, Holly has taken a tremendous amount of heat for this work.  \u201cEveryone has experienced grief, which makes everyone the expert.\u201d  Today we offer Holly a chance to answer her critics, including assertions that: Grief is love; how can love be wrong? Pathologizing grief leads to overmedicalization of a natural condition  Prolonged grief disorder is a tool made for the pharmaceutical industry  Prolonged grief disorder does not account for cultural variation in mourning practices Along the way we talk about other related studies Holly has conducted, including a validation of DABDA - Elizabeth Kubler Ross\u2019s famous stages of grief. And a song choice from the great lyricist Tom Waits. Enjoy! -@AlexSmithMD ","author_name":"GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.geripal.org","html":"