| Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 - August 24, 2004)
was a psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On
Death and Dying, where she first discussed what is now known as
the Kübler-Ross model.
Kübler-Ross was born in Zürich, Switzerland and graduated
from the University of Zürich medical school in 1957. She moved
to the United States in 1958 to work and continue her studies in
New York.
As she began her practice, she was appalled by the hospital treatment
of patients who were dying. She began giving a series of lectures
featuring terminally ill patients. That led to On Death and Dying
in 1969. She wrote over 20 additional books on the subject of dying.
She did not found the hospice movement, but its adherents credit
her with encouraging it.
Kübler-Ross completed her degree in psychiatry at the University
of Colorado in 1963 and has also received more than 20 honorary
doctorates. Kübler-Ross suffered a series of strokes in 1995
which left her partially paralyzed on her left side. In a 2002 interview
with The Arizona Republic, she stated that she was ready for death.
She died in 2004 at her home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Selected Bibliography
- On Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1969
- Questions & Answers on Death & Dying, (Simon &
Schuster/Touchstone), 1972
- Death: The Final Stage of Growth, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),74
- To Live Until We Say Goodbye, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),
1978
- The Doughy Letter -A Letter to a Dying Child, (Celestial Arts/Ten
Speed Press) 1979 Quest, *Biography of EKR (Written with Derek
Gill), Harper & Row, 1980
- Working It Through, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1981
- Living With Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1981
- Remember The Secret, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press)1981
- On Children & Death, (Simon & Schuster)1985
- AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge, (Simon & Schuster)1988
- On Life After Death, (Celestial Arts)
- Death is of Vital Importance, (Out of Print- Now "The Tunnel
and the Light") 1995 Unfolding *The Wings of Love, (Germany
only - Silberschnur), 1996
- Making the Most of the Inbetween, (Various Foreign) 1996
- Aids & Love, The Conference in Barcelona, (Spain) 1996
- Longing to Go Back Home, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1997
- The Wheel of Life, (Simon & Schuster/Scribner),1997
- Why Are We Here, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1999
- The Tunnel and the Light, (Avalon), 1999
- Life lessons, (With David Kessler), 2001
- Real Taste of Life: A photographic Journal
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