As President Biden noted in his national address last night, we are struggling to comprehend the incomprehensible – that half a million of our fellow Americans – and another two million more people around the globe -- have lost their lives to the COVID-19 virus over the short span of a year.  We have also lost, in many cases, the traditional ways of grieving these tragic deaths.   

Tom's next guest is Dr. Dorothy Holinger.  She is a psychotherapist in private practice, and a staff psychologist at two Harvard Medical School teaching colleges in Boston: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Department of Neurology and the Mass General Brigham Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry. She is the author of a new book called The Anatomy of Grief. 

In it, she draws on science, patient narratives, the arts, and her own personal experience with loss to examine the parameters of grief, the range of physical and psychological changes grief can induce, and the tools we can use to heal after a wrenching personal loss.

Dr. Holinger  joins us on Zoom.

As President Biden noted in his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/22/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-more-than-500000-american-lives-lost-to-covid-19/" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/22/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-more-than-500000-american-lives-lost-to-covid-19/">national address&nbsp;</a>last night, we are struggling to comprehend the incomprehensible &ndash; that half a million of our fellow Americans &ndash; and another two million more people around the globe -- have lost their lives to the COVID-19 virus over the short span of a year.&nbsp; We have also lost, in many cases, the traditional ways of grieving these tragic deaths.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Tom's next guest is&nbsp;<a href="http://dorothypholinger.com/author/bio/" data-cke-saved-href="http://dorothypholinger.com/author/bio/">Dr. Dorothy Holinger.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;She is a psychotherapist in private practice, and a staff psychologist at two Harvard Medical School teaching colleges in Boston: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center&rsquo;s Department of Neurology and the Mass General Brigham Hospital&rsquo;s Department of Psychiatry. She is the author of a new book called&nbsp;<a href="http://dorothypholinger.com/author/the-anatomy-of-grief/" data-cke-saved-href="http://dorothypholinger.com/author/the-anatomy-of-grief/">The Anatomy of Grief.</a>&nbsp;
In it, she draws on science, patient narratives, the arts, and her own personal experience with loss to examine the parameters of grief, the range of physical and psychological changes grief can induce, and the tools we can use to heal after a wrenching personal loss.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DorothyPHolingerPHD/" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.facebook.com/DorothyPHolingerPHD/">Dr. Holinger</a>&nbsp; joins us on Zoom.

Monday-Friday from noon-1:00, Tom Hall and his guests are talking about what's on your mind, and what matters most to Marylander's, the latest news, local and national politics, education and the environment, popular culture and the arts, sports and science, race and religion, movies and medicine. We welcome your questions and comments. E-mail us at midday@wypr.org

Monday-Friday from noon-1:00, Tom Hall and his guests are talking about what's on your mind, and what matters most to Marylander's, the latest news, local and national politics, education and the environment, popular culture and the arts, sports and science, race and religion, movies and medicine. We welcome your questions and comments. E-mail us at <a href="mailto:midday@wypr.org">midday@wypr.org</a>

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Monday-Friday from noon-1:00, Tom Hall and his guests are talking about what's on your mind, and what matters most to Marylander's, the latest news, local and national politics, education and the environment, popular culture and the arts, sports and science, race and religion, movies and medicine.  We welcome your questions and comments. E-mail us at midday@wypr.org.

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