SevenPonds Blog
by Kelly Larsen
January 14, 2012
INTERVIEW
Dr. Lizabeth Eckerd is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Humboldt State University. Her research interests include grief as well as death and dying.
KELLY: Your specialty is grief. What got you interested in studying this topic in your pursuit of psychology?
DR. ECKERD: What got me interested was initially my own personal experience with grief. Back in 1993 my first husband died of cancer. I was very young. It was very unusual for someone like me to go through that. My experience was that I was fortunate and had lots of friends and loved ones who wanted to be helpful, but oftentimes people don’t know what to do when they’re put in that situation.
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