free lecture on grief

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This is my family’s first holiday season without my grandfather, and we’re all feeling his absence. People have different ways of dealing with the loss of someone close, and sometimes we may ask ourselves, ‘How long will I feel this way?’ or ‘Is this normal?’ Grief is a natural response to death, as we work through the myriad of feelings that come up as the grieving process takes its course. Sometimes, however, one can get stuck on that course, and it becomes difficult to move on.

Tomorrow, December 3rd, Dr. Allan Zuckoff, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, will be at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Main to speak about grief, how it works, when it doesn’t, and to clarify commonly held misconceptions about it. The lecture will be held in the International Poetry Room on the 2nd Floor at 6pm, and there will be free screenings for Complicated Grief and Depression. It is part of the Mental Health & Wellness Lecture Series, a monthly event sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

If you or someone you know wants to learn more about the grieving process, please come and take advantage of this free program. You may also be interested in this list of fiction, memoirs and self help books, as well.

• Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, by Ann Hood
• Good Grief: A Novel, by Lolly Winston
• Grief, by Andrew Holleran
• I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping, and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One, by Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair
• On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss, by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold Kushner
• The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

-Kaarin

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