1 Paul K. Maciejewski, PhD, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA; Holly G. Prigerson, PhD, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA pam2056@med.cornell.edu.
2 Paul K. Maciejewski, PhD, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA; Holly G. Prigerson, PhD, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA.
The DSM and ICD have taken steps to introduce a grief disorder as a new diagnostic entity. Evidence justifies the inclusion of prolonged grief disorder, but not complicated grief, as a new mental disorder.