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Grief Reactions Following Death of the Significant Other

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Psychosomatic Medicine

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Investigations on the topic of death and grief reactions have been increasing in the latter two decades, but must still be regarded as a relatively new field of research. In any expanding field, the complexity of the subject in question is one of the most striking features, and this is also the case with death and dying.

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Lindström, C., Qvarnström, U. (1983). Grief Reactions Following Death of the Significant Other. In: Krakowski, A.J., Kimball, C.P. (eds) Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4496-4_28

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