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About this week’s episode
Mary-Frances’s book The Grieving Brain has inspired me from the moment I started reading it. In this episode, Mary-Frances is back to speak about her second book The Grieving Body.
I’m very excited today to be speaking with Mary-Frances again, a neuroscientist, to find out even more about the science behind grief and all that Mary-Frances and her colleagues have researched in their lab.
About this week’s guest
Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab.
Her research focuses on the physiological correlates of emotion, in particular, the wide range of physical and emotional responses during bereavement, including yearning and isolation. She believes that a clinical science approach toward the experience and mechanisms of grieving can improve interventions for prolonged grief disorder, newly included in the revised DSM-5.
Website: https://maryfrancesoconnor.org/