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The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience lossa personal or national onewe hear them recited denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The stages are invoked to explain everything from how we will recover from the death of a loved one to a sudden environmental catastrophe or to the trading away of a basketball star. But the stunning fact is that there is no validity to the stages that were proposed by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kbler-Ross more than forty years ago. In The Truth About Grief, Ruth Davis Konigsberg shows how the five stages were based on no science but nonetheless became national myth. She explains that current research paints a completely different picture of how we actually grieve.
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Ruth Davis Konigsberg was born in New York City in 1968. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, she began a career in magazine journalism and worked as an editor for New York and Glamour and has written for publications such as The New York Observer and ELLE, often about psychology. Konigsberg lives in Pelham, NY with her husband and their two children.
