Prolonged grief as a disease?

Prolonged grief as a disease?The eleventh version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which became effective in 2022, has raised a number of issues connected to medical ethics. It is in this context that the paper explores the normative view of grief as a disease (Klass et al. 1996; Archer 1999; Wilkinson 2000; Stroebe et al. 2008; Wakefield 2012; Wittkowski 2020). The context of this issue goes back to 2013 and the inclusion of “persistent complex bereavement disorder” in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), Section III, under “Conditions for…