Is Grief a Disease? Sometimes.

Complicated grief and impaired sleep in patients with bipolar disorder

“…Our findings thus add to prior evidence that CG is associated with sleep disturbance, beyond that seen with normal bereavement or with DSM‐IV mood or anxiety disorders. Specificity of the CG‐associated sleep impairment supports accumulating evidence (8, 10, 26, 27) indicating that CG is a distinct condition.…”

A Cross-Cultural Approach to Complicated Grief Reactions Among Togo–Western African Immigrants in Europe

“…Ultimately, the results of this study lay the foundations for further research on bereavement in the context of migration and open up avenues for clinical reflection on the role and scope of the parent–child relationship and cultural ties in providing support for migrants and refugees suffering from CG (Craig et al, 2008; McLellan, 2015). Whereas the “Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder,” a new nosographic category in the DSM-5 , requires additional research (APA, 2013; Shear et al, 2011), the psycho-cultural aspects of the grief reactions observed and discussed in this study modestly contribute to comprehensive heuristic analysis with the practical aim of preventing and treating them (Glass, 2005) in the context of migration.…”

Deceased-infant carrying in nonhuman anthropoids: Insights from systematic analysis and case studies of bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) and lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus).

“…Grief in animals, defined as measurable deviation from typical behaviors and characterized by reduced feeding, diminished and/or selective social interactions, extended periods of passivity, and aggravated searching (in the absence of offspring’s corpse; Cowles & Rodgers, 1991; Glass, 2005; King, 2013; Kowalski & Bondmass, 2008) has either been dismissed as an exclusively laboratory trait or an anthropomorphic aberration. This is due to the absence of systematic definition and objective measures, necessitating the development of tractable indicators of grief identifiable even in natural conditions.…”