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Podcast: Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined
Episode: Pauline Boss, PhD. - The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change.
Description: Closure from ambiguous loss is a harmful misnomer. What’s needed is resilienceto live in meaningful ways with no closure. - Pauline Boss, PhD.In the 1970s, Pauline Boss, PhD, began developing her theory of ambiguous loss which shebrought to the lay public in 1999 in Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief.Ambiguous loss is an “unclear loss with unanswered questions.” Such loss can be physical orpsychological, catastrophic or commonplace. In her recent book, The Myth of Closure:Ambiguous Loss in a T...