Interesting post! Indeed the name Prolonged Grief Disorder is bewildering. Would be interesting to apporach the duration criteria of PGD more as an exclusion criteria for disordered grief. In Defense of Disordered Grief, by @awaisaftab

Going on Christmas vacation with this bad boy and the newly published first article of my PhD (also a bad boy!). Access it via the link or DM me for a copy https://t.co/OeJcfUEcYi

Stor anbefaling herfra! Awais er fremragende til å samle det viktigste fra kritiske perspektiver i psykiatri og presentere dette på en inspirerende måte. Gleder meg stort til å lese!

Ny fagartikkel ute i tidsskrift for norsk psykologforening! Frida Ramsing og jeg kommenterer på innføringen av forlenget sorglidelse som diagnose og viser til erfaringer fra praksis i Danmark. God lesning!

It's snowing in Aarhus, so the conditions are perfect for a good read on controversies on grief and psychiatry. Happy advent and good reading! Coffee tastes better in the winter☕️❄️☃️

We hope that the correspondence can illustrate and clarify the possibilities for development with contributions from both clinical psychology and critical cultural psychology.

This has big implications for the argument of PGD being problematic, although the general critique of psychiatric diagnoses remain -- and could be accentuated as larger issues in nosology.

Overall, we agree on much of what Brinkmann argues. However his argument does not acknowledge that a diagnosis of PGD is not aimed at, nor does it capture, universal, normal grief but rather pervasive, pathological states.

Brinkmann presents a concern that pathologizing grief may have problematic consequences, hereunder lack of resources for the most severely mental disorders.

Merry December! I am happy to share that our correspondence with Svend Brinkmann on pathologizing grief has been published in the December issue of Theory & Psychology. Perhaps more than anything, it gives insight on the current strandpoints to debating the PGD diagnosis.

Thrilled to share that I have started a PhD at Unit for Bereavement Research at @AarhusUni_int ! I look forward to contributing with a qualitative outlook on pathological grief under eminent supervisors. When I'm not working hard, I'll enjoy this view from my office window :^)

A History of Prolonged Grief Disorder's Inclusion in the DSM — And What Is Missing From It https://t.co/KZQdZWcKgI

The article can be found here: https://t.co/UN5BVbBiot (7/7)

We look forward to further debates on the issue, and hope the article clarifies certain aspects in the debate, we believe to be overlooked or undercommunicated. There are good reasons for remaining critical, but also to hold on to our clinical mandate. (6/7)

We argue that PGD can be both a meaningful development in psychiatric diagnostics and also illustrate pervasive theoretical issues in psychiatry. This means that PGD raises many important discussions but few grief-specific. (5/7)

A main takeaway from the article should be that we are confident that it is possible to remain politically and conceptually critical of psychiatry whilst also treating pathological variants of grief. This form of clinical practice, we reckon with optimism. (4/7)

The main drive behind the article came from a wonder on why the diagnosis can create such a stir, and how sympathetic academics and clinicians can be so thoroughly in opposition. Although professional disagreement is not new, PGD really puts an edge on this dissent. (3/7)

The article addresses the Nordic debate about PGD, a diagnosis for pathological grief, which was recently enacted in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR. Our overarching aim is to integrate insights from cultural psychology and health psychology. (2/7)

The article “Which considerations are lost when debating the prolonged grief disorder diagnosis?” written by Frida Ramsing and myself is now online at Theory & Psychology. We are grateful for the possibility of contributing to the literature on this controversial field. (1/7)

“Philosophy of Psychiatry: a Journal’s 30th Anniversary & Recent Developments in the Field” Nancy Potter and I write about 30 years of @philpsychpsy and developments in philosophy of psychiatry for @DailyNousEditor! @aapp_PhilPsych https://t.co/lOp4PSwM7V