Complicated bereavement: Disease state or state of being?

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-36

  Goodkin, Karl ^a   Lee, Diana ^a   Molina, Rebeca ^a   Zheng, Wenli ^a   Frasca, Alicia ^a   O'Mellan, Sandra ^a   Asthana, Deshratn ^a   Shapshak, Paul ^a   Khamis, Imad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 33645214593     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/29HW-6KND-WFEP-T9L0     Document Type: Review

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