The Kubler-Ross model describes five emotional stages that a person experiencing sudden grief following an abrupt realization is said to pass through: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. It was introduced as The Five Stages of Death by the Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1969, and has since circulated under several other names, including The Five Stages of Loss, The Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle and The Kubler-Ross Change Curve. Though the model remains widely used, it is empirically unsupported.
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Core ClaimThe Kübler-Ross model holds that a person experiencing sudden grief or a terminal diagnosis moves through five emotional stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Five Stages of Grief
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Introduced as "The Five Stages of Death" by Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in 1969, this model has been known by various names, including "The Five Stages of Loss", "The Kübler-Ross Model", the "Kübler-Ross Grief Cycle", the "Grief Cycle", "The Seven Stages of Grief", and the "Kübler-Ross Change Curve".
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