Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: The rise and fall of the five stages of grief
In 1969, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross wrote the book On Death and Dying. In it, she began by describing how patients talk about dying, and went on to discuss how end-of-life care could be improved.
The part of it that stuck in the public imagination was the idea that when a person is diagnosed with a terminal illness they go through a series of emotional stages.
Kübler-Ross described five … [ Read more ]
Authors: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Lucy Burns | Source: BBC (July 3, 2020) | Subjects: Excerpts, Psychology | Behavior