The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss with Psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor

We have an amazing guest on today's episode, Mary-Frances
O'Connor, a psychologist and author of "The Grieving Brain: The
Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss."


Mary-Frances conducts studies to better understand the grief
process both psychologically and physiologically. She is a leader
in the field of prolonged grief, a clinical condition in which
people do not adjust to the acute feelings of grief and show
increases in yearning, avoidance, and rumination. 


Her work primarily focuses on trying to tease out the mechanisms
that cause this ongoing and severe reaction to loss. In
particular, she is curious about the neurobiological, immune, and
cardiovascular factors that vary between individual responses to
grief.


In this episode we explore the different facets of grief, how it
affects our brain, how to deal with it and how we can support
others. 


A heavy topic, and we are complete novices here but we learnt a
lot and hope that you did to.


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Lots of Love,


Dave & Steve


Produced by Sean Cahill and Sara Fawsitt





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