The Five Stages of Grief

Welcome to this video about Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief. After the publication of her best-selling book, On Death and Dying, in 1969, Kübler-Ross and her theories about dying became widely known and appreciated. In this book, Kübler-Ross described a number of stages that dying patients go through. While she noted in the text that there were additional stages, such as preparatory or anticipatory grieving and shock, there were separate chapters for the five primary stages, which included: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. These five stages then became the focus of her theory as interpreted by others.

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The 5 stages of grief refer to the stages of patients who are dying, nor the survivors of loved ones. This is frequently misunderstood.