title: [Bereavement and complicated grief: towards a definition of Prolonged Grief Disorder for DSM-5].
abstract: Mourning is a natural response to a loss and a condition which most people experience several times during their lives. Most individuals adjust adequately to the loss of a relative, neverthless, a small but noteworthy proportion of bereaved individuals experience a syndrome of prolonged psychological distress in relation to bereavement. Prolonged distress and disability in connection with bereavement has been termed Complicated Grief (CG) or Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). The purpose of this paper is to analyze the literature on loss and mourning making a review of the main studies published between 1993 and 2013, identified through a search conducted on Medline/PubMed, in order to describe the epidemiological and clinical aspects of "normal" grief and "complicated" grief, pointing out the path of the clinical definition of PGD and proposed diagnostic criteria for inclusion in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition (DSM-5). The two main diagnostic systems proposed by Horowitz and Prigerson are also compared.
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lombardo
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Luciani
authors.forename: Emanuela
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Morelli
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Buttinelli
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aceto
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Onofrio
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Galli
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bellizzi
authors.forename: Italo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Penco
mesh_terms: D001601:Bereavement; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*