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How grieving changes the brain, with Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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How Do You Feel When a Celebrity Dies?

When people grieve about a celebrity who died, some one they greatly admired, it's not a physical loss in the same way. You didn't have an actual relationship with the person, other than the one you had in your mind. Many of those art forms provide us a way to access some of our inner emotions. Think about the way musicians will write lyrics, and we think, oh my goodness, how could they know that about me? Write that that really describes exactly how i feel? And i think that is a kind of bonding that happens.

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