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Grief and acceptance as opposite sides of the same coin: setting a research agenda to study peaceful acceptance of loss

Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Center for Psycho-Oncology and Palliative Care Research, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; and Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Boston, Massachusetts

Paul K. Maciejewski, PhD

Center for Psycho-Oncology and Palliative Care Research, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, and Department of Psychiatry and Women’s Health Research, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Correspondence: Dr Holly G. Prigerson, Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research, Suite 530, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston MA 02115, USA. Email:holly_prigerson{at}dfci.harvard.edu

Declaration of interest

None.

Holly G. Prigerson (pictured) is Director of Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paul K. Maciejewski is Director of Statistics, Women’s Health Research, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and member of the Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, Newhaven, Connecticut, USA.

Reflections on results of a recent study suggest that stages of grief might more accurately be described as states of grief. Resolution of grief coincides with increasing acceptance of loss. Research indicating how grief resolution promotes acceptance may prove clinically useful in easing emotional pain associated with loss.

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