Prolonged, but not complicated, grief is a mental disorder.

Maciejewski, Paul K; Prigerson, Holly G · Br J Psychiatry · 2017

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Abstract

The DSM and ICD have taken steps to introduce a grief disorder as a new diagnostic entity. Evidence justifies the inclusion of prolonged grief disorder, but not complicated grief, as a new mental disorder.

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