Prolonged Grief Disorder

**Definition:** Severe and disabling grief reactions that do not remit in the 12 months after the death of a significant other. The core of the diagnosis includes persistent yearning or missing the deceased, and preoccupation with the circumstance of the death. (Carmassi, Clinical Handbook of Bereavement and Grief Reactions, 2018)

**Tree numbers:** - F01.470.142.555 - F03.950.625

**Synonyms:** - Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder