Pathological grief in doctors' wives.

Pathological grief in doctors' wives.

The mental health of doctors has received increasing attention in recent years, but articles on the doctor's wife and family remain scarce.' Those reports that do exist emphasise the wife's reluctance to express her dependence on her husband because he is already burdened with trying to meet the needs of his patients2 and her search for a personal identity that is not based solely on being a do...

Ignoring the obvious: doctors' wives as patients.

There is a widely held belief among doctors and nurses that when a colleague is in hospital, if anything can go wrong during the course of his illness it invariably will. To investigate this belief, we studied prospectively a group of pregnant doctors and doctors' wives, comparing the number of obstetric, paediatric, and psychiatric complications with those in two control groups of similar soci...

Running head: NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL GRIEF

On the classification and diagnosis of pathological grief.

It has been suggested that pathological grief should become either a separate category of mental disorder or be integrated within existing, extended classifications in systems such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Despite strong arguments for inclusion, and advancements by scientists toward development of diagnostic classification, there has been a lack of critical ...

the role of pathological and normal grief in the prevalence of mental disorders among adolescents

for the purpose of studying the effects of pathological and normal grief on the prevalence of mental disorders among adolescents. 164 intermediate and highschool students were administered a grief inventory and a questionnarire assessing mental disorders. among the study group 83 students had experienced the death of one of their family members (mostly fathers), and 81 did not have such experie...