Oct 22nd 2020
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Talk: How changes in cemetery and crematorium provision over time help us to understand grief
Dr. Julie Rugg, Senior Research Fellow, Cemetery Research Group, University of York |
Postponed;
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Workshop: Sensing the presence of the dead
Dr. Edith Steffen, Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton Dr. Jacqueline Hayes, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton Dr. Marion Wilson, Cruse Research Group, Cruse Bereavement Care |
Past Events
25th Feb 2020
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Lecture: 'Grief and neurological impairment'
Prof. Jonathan Cole, University of Bournemouth/Clinical Neurophysiology, Poole Hospital, UK. Abstract
Definitions of grief will be explored, whether ‘normal,’ prolonged/complicated or anticipated; in terms of the classes of trigger; whether the causative event is singular or continuing; and whether grief is in the subject of the event or their carers/relatives. The psychiatric literature’s attempts to classify reactions as expected and excessive, and to tease apart grief and depression will be considered before the ways in which various neurological impairments handle grief will be discussed, (stroke, Parkinson’s, spinal cord injury). From these emerge questions rather than conclusions: should grief be discussed as a verb rather than a noun (and if so which tense?), how might normal and abnormal types be defined and treated, does grief imply a single event and loss rather than unwanted presence, and why are some people more resilient? 
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