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Mary-Frances O’Connor

Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology, University of Arizona

Mary-Frances O’Connor is associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Arizona and the author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss (HarperOne, 2022).

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Written by Mary-Frances O’Connor

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Grief

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Seeing grieving as learning explains why the process takes time

Standard features of human memory and learning can help explain the disorientation that follows the death of a loved one

by Saren H Seeley & Mary-Frances O’Connor