One of the best criticisms I have read (and I forget where) of the Kubler-Ross model has to do with her affiliation with medical providers and the perception that her idea of of healthy grieving/adjustment to approaching death - based on resignation/acceptance - best serves the needs of the staff of the hospital and not the dying person.
Whose to say that it is unhealthy or maladjusted in some way to go "kicking and screaming" instead of passively accepting approaching death? I have my suspicions of any model that proposes to make normative projections something that is almost as diverse as the people who experience it. It sure keeps things quiet and uncomplicated on the ward though. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach CA PS. The same I suspect is true of the CISD/PTSD industry. Psychosocial adjustment to large-scale disaster and emergency is also diverse. Many people don't get PTSD and yet there is a movement to compel treatment. I don't even see PTSD as pathological, frankly, I believe it's more like an injury than a disease. And it is based in mechanisms that exist in nature to help us remember and avoid danger. This is not pathology, it's survival. --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
