concerns on the medicalization of bereavement by harvard psychiatrist, anthropologist and widower Arthur Kleinman in thelancet

“My grief, like that of millions of others, signalled the loss of something truly vital in my life. This pain was part of the remembering and maybe also the remaking. It punctuated the end of a time and a form of living, and marked the transition to a new time and a different way of living. The suffering pushed me out of my ordinary day-to-day existence and called into question the meanings and values that animated our life.”