Pallagio's Husband Died at Age 70

question 86

Multiple Choice

Pallagio's husband died at age 70. For the next year, she finds herself thinking about him constantly. Every night she talks out loud to his photo. How would a clinical psychologist describe these behaviors?

• A) a normal part of grieving
• B) a sign of delusional thinking
• C) a sign of abnormal obsessions
• D) evidence of an abnormal lack of anger

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