August 3, 2026
“Within each grief group, the tighter the salience and default mode pair ran, the more severe the grief and the more the person avoided – and avoidance is precisely the part of grief a patient will argue is incidental.”
“A prevalence figure for prolonged grief describes the scoring rule at least as much as it describes the population it was measured in.”
“The programme's real content is its ordering: stabilise, rebuild meaning, work the appraisals, address the bond, and only then approach the death itself, alone with the therapist rather than in the group.”
“Ask what happens in the twenty minutes after she closes the app, not whether she should be opening it.”
“Intensity that fails to decay is a more useful clinical signal than intensity that is merely high.”
“Three and a half hours is a starting point, not a competency – the competency arrives later, from supervised cases.”