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The Depression of Widowhood after Thirteen Months

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Philipp E. Bornstein
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 4940 Audubon Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A
Paula J. Clayton
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 4940 Audubon Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A
James A. Halikas
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 4940 Audubon Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A
William L. Maurice
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Eli Robins
Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 4940 Audubon Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A

Extract

Bereavement is a crisis from which few people are spared. In spite of its universality, there have been few carefully designed, well documented, systematic studies describing its natural history and its relationship to other affective disturbances.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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