Author Ruth Davis Konigsberg challenges Elizabeth Kubler Ross's Five Stages of Grief

[kwonbbl]

The ‘five stages’ of Kubler Ross (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) should be understood as ‘five facets’ - a terminology independent of the sequence one in grief is supposed to step through.

I think Kubler Ross makes people think she has gone too much in her dogmatic 'modeling'.

[ajn2217]

Kubler-Ross never intended her 5 stages to be used as a rigid framework. She said, “They were never meant to help tuck messy emotions into neat packages. They are responses to loss that many people have, but there is not a typical response to loss, as there is no typical loss. Our grieving is as individual as our lives.” I'm glad a publicist who used to edit for 'Glamour' magazine is speaking about grief.