Miss Havisham’s Guide to Loss

Writing in The Oldie, Dalrymple considers the new psychiatric category of Prolonged Grief Disorder, using Miss Havisham as its archetype. He notes that a review of 169 controlled trials found little evidence that any treatment does much good.

Grief, like any emotion, can turn morbid. Whatever is morbid is soon hypostasised these days to a disease, and every disease calls forth its acronym.

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