Members of the media are invited to participate in an exciting and timely cross-national and interdisciplinary conversation on grief and loss: theory, research, and practice. In this post 9/11 world where shooting rampages, bombs going off in airports, wars, natural disasters, and chronic illness are common occurrences, we have a lot to mourn.
CIHR-funded researcher and psychologist Dr. Leeat Granek and other grief experts wish to open the dialogue on loss and de-pathologize grief, which is proposed to be added to the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders set as Complicated or Pathological Grief.
Who:
– Grief as a Mental Disorder, Leeat Granek, PhD
– Grief and Resilience, Dr. George Bonanno
– Grief and Community, Dr. Tina Chery
– Psychoanalysis and Mourning, Dr. Elliot Jurist
– 9/11 Panel: Drs. Samuel Heilman, April Naturale, Alisha Betten, Manny Shapiro and Robin Stern.
When:
Friday, February 11, 2011
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Where:
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor
To schedule an interview or to learn more about the meeting, please contact:
David Coulombe
Media Specialist, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Telephone: 613-941-4563
Cellphone: 613-808-7526
E-mail: mediarelations@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
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Source: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)