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The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor
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Through my years of study and research, I eventually realized the brain has a problem to solve when a loved one has died. This is not a trivial problem. Losing our one-and-only overwhelms us, because we need our loved ones as much as we ...more
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