Loss - Think

Kids need to talk about death, too

November 15, 2023 Mental Health, Think

Elena Lister, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how parents and educators can talk about grief with a child in a nurturing way.

How to cope with multiple losses at once

November 22, 2022 Mental Health

Katie Reilly talks about cumulative grief – where one loss exacerbates the effects of another – how that effects health and relationships, and how to make it through.

There’s no point in seeking closure — and that’s OK

May 10, 2022 Global Issues, Health, Mental Health, Science and Technology

Prof. Pauline Boss discusses the pain from our collective loss of the pandemic, which lacks clarity, and the ongoing struggle to understand the new normal around us.

She studied romance, he studied loneliness. Then they fell in love.

April 18, 2022 Science and Technology

Neuroscientist Stephanie Cacioppo explores her story of love and loss, and what she’s learned about what makes us fall in love and what breaks our hearts.

The scientists who couldn’t help their own daughter

October 27, 2021 Health, Science and Technology, Think

Daniel Engber, senior editor at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss the parents – one a bioengineer in regenerative medicine and another a specialist in rehabilitation robotics – who found they had to rethink their life’s work to help their young daughter after an accident.

An Autopsy Of The Great Recession

January 14, 2020 Current Events, Economics

Reveal journalist Aaron Glantz joins us to talk about how “mortgage products” let so many Americans down.

It’s Gonna Be OK: You Can Survive Grief

December 16, 2019 Culture, Health, Science and Technology

George A. Bonanno, chair of the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College, joins us to talk about research that shows a complex pattern of grieving and new insights into resilience

Grieving Before Someone’s Gone

December 10, 2019 Health, Science and Technology

Pauline Boss, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, joins us to talk about her work that has helped articulate the lonely and confusing feelings of loss even as someone lives.

The Hidden Grief of Miscarriage

July 3, 2019 Culture, Health

Psychotherapist Julia Bueno joins us to talk about the trauma and stigma surrounding the loss of a pregnancy.