Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model.

Kübler-Ross was born in Zürich, Switzerland, one of a set of identical triplets. ^[1] She graduated from the University of Zürich medical school in 1957. She moved to the United States in 1958 to work and continue her studies in New York.

As she began her practice, she was appalled by the hospital treatment of patients who were dying. She began giving a series of lectures featuring terminally ill patients, forcing medical students to confront people who were dying. Her extensive work with the dying led to On Death and Dying in 1969. She wrote over 20 additional books on the subject of dying.

She also proposed the now famous Five Stages of Grief as a pattern of phases, most or all of which people tend to go through, in sequence, after being faced with the tragedy of their own impending death. The five stages of grief, in sequential order, are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The five stages have since been adopted by many as applying to the survivors of a loved one's death, as well.

She did not found the hospice care movement, but its adherents credit her with encouraging it. Kübler-Ross completed her degree in psychiatry at the University of Colorado in 1963 and has also received 23 honorary doctorates.

In later life, Kubler-Ross became interested in out-of-body experiences and mediumistic attempts to contact the dead. This led to a scandal connected with one medium, as well as attacks on her healing centers.

Kübler-Ross suffered a series of strokes in 1995 which left her partially paralyzed on her left side. In a 2002 interview with The Arizona Republic, she stated that she was ready for death. She died in 2004 at her home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

1 Honorary Degrees
2 Selected bibliography
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Honorary Degrees

Doctor of Science, H.C., Albany Medical College, New York 1974
Doctor of Laws, University of Notre Dame, IN.,1974
Doctor of Science, Smith College 1975
Doctor of Science, Molley College, Rockville Center, NY, 1976
Doctor of Humanities, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. 1975
Doctor of Laws, Hamline University, MN. 1975
Doctor of Humane Letters, Amherst College, MA. 1975
Doctor of Humane Letters, Loyola University, IL 1975
Doctor of Humanities, Hood College, MD 1976
Doctor of Letters, Rosary College, IL. 1976
Doctor of Pedagogy, Keuka College, NY 1976
Doctor of Humane Science, University of Miami, FL 1976
Doctor of Humane Letters, Bard College, NY 1977
Doctor of Science, Weston MA., 1977
Honorary Degree, Anna Maria College, MA., 1978
Doctor of Humane Letters, Union College, New York 1978
Doctor of Humane Letters, D'Youville College, New York 1979
Doctor of Science, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1979
Doctor of Divinity, 1996

[edit] Selected bibliography

On Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1969
Questions & Answers on Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1972
Death: The Final Stage of Growth, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1974
To Live Until We Say Goodbye, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1978
The Doughy Letter -A Letter to a Dying Child, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press), 1979
Quest, Biography of EKR (Written with Derek Gill), (Harper & Row), 1980
Working It Through, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1981
Living With Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1981
Remember The Secret, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press)1981
On Children & Death, (Simon & Schuster)1985
AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge, (Simon & Schuster)1988
On Life After Death, (Celestial Arts)1991
Death is of Vital Importance, (Out of Print- Now The Tunnel and the Light) 1995
Unfolding the Wings of Love (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1996
Making the Most of the Inbetween, (Various Foreign) 1996
Aids & Love, The Conference in Barcelona, (Spain) 1996
Longing to Go Back Home, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1997
The Wheel of Life, (Simon & Schuster/Scribner),1997
Why Are We Here, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1999
The Tunnel and the Light, (Avalon), 1999
Life lessons, (With David Kessler), 2001
Real Taste of Life: A photographic Journal