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Biographical Sketch
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Edward K. Rynearson, M.D.
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Medical Director |
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Violent Death Bereavement Society |
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Homicide Support Project |
| Education and Training |
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Degree |
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Field of Study |
| Harvard University |
BA |
1961 |
Anthropology |
| Western Reserve University |
MD |
1965 |
Medicine |
| Virginia Mason Clinic |
Internship |
1966 |
Medicine |
| Mayo Clinic |
Residency |
1971 |
Psychiatry |
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Research and Professional Experience
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| 1972 |
Founder, Section of Psychiatry, Virginia Mason Medical Center |
| 1980-Present |
Examiner, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology |
| 1980-Present |
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Washington |
| 1984 |
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association |
| 1984 |
Fellow, Royal Australia-New Zealand College of Psychiatry |
| 1988 |
Fellow, The American College of Psychiatry |
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Selected Publications (grief related)
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| 1. Rynearson EK: Popular music: An institution of American adolescent society, in: Essays on |
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American Culture. Harvard Printing Office, 1961. |
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| 2. Rynearson EK: Identifying the depressed patient. Bull Mason Clinic 1972; 26(4). |
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| 3. Rynearson EK: The helpful physician and the unhelpable patient. Postgrad Med 1975; 58(2). |
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| 4. Rynearson EK: The acute brain syndrome: A family crisis. Psychiatric Annals 1977; 7(11). |
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| 5. Rynearson EK: The helpful physician and the unhelpable patient, in: 1977 Year Book of |
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Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health. Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc., 1977. |
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| 6. Rynearson EK: Middle age: Psychiatric or existential? Bull Mason Clin 1978; 32(4). |
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| 7. Rynearson EK: Humans and pets and attachments. Br J Psych 1978; 133:550-555. |
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| 8. Krupp N, Rynearson EK: Consultation-liaison: A patient-based overview. Psychosomatics |
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1979; 20(2). |
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| 9. Rynearson EK: Humans and pets and attachments. Psychiatric Digest, Spring, 1979. |
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| 10. Rynearson EK: Suicide internalized: An existential sequestrum. Am J Psych
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| 11. Rynearson EK: Pets as family members: An illustrative case history. Int J Fam Psych 1980; |
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1(2). |
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| 12. Rynearson EK: Pathological attachment between human and pet: The clinician's nightmare. |
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Arch Found Thanatology 1981; 9(2). |
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| 13. Rynearson EK: Relinquishment and its maternal complications: A preliminary study. Am J |
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Psych 1982; 72(11). |
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| 14. Melson SJ, Rynearson EK: Unresolved bereavement – medical reenactment of grief. |
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Postgrad Med 1982; 138:338-340. |
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| 15. Melson SJ, Rynearson EK, Dortzbach J, Clark RD, Snyder AL: Short-term intensive group |
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psychotherapy in a multispecialty medical clinic. Psychosomatics 1982; 23(7). |
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| 16. Rynearson EK: Distortions of self-image and audiovisual therapy. Psych Annals 1982; |
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12(12). |
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| 17. Rynearson EK, Melson SJ, Clark RC, Snyder A: Short-term intensive group psychotherapy |
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for the resistant functional patient. Current Psych Therapies 1983; 22:197-205. |
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| 18. Rynearson EK, McCreery, J: Bereavement after homicide: A descriptive study. Am J Psych |
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November 1984; 141(11): pp.1452-1454. |
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| 19. Rynearson EK: A violent death in the family. Harvard Medical School Mental Health Letter |
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1985; 11(May):7. Abstracted. |
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| 20. Rynearson EK, Melson SJ: Short-term group psychotherapy. A successful approach to |
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functional complaints. Postgrad Med, November 1984; 76(7):141-150. |
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| 21. Rynearson EK: The owner/pet: Pathologic attachment, in: Kay WJ, Nieburg HA, Kutscher |
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AH, Grey RN, Fudin CE (eds): Pet Loss and Human Bereavement, Chapter 18, November 1984, pp. 143-148. |
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| 22. Rynearson EK: People's relationships with pets. Physician & Patient, May 1984:11:7. |
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| 23. Rynearson EK: Psychological effects of unnatural dying on bereavement. Psychiatric |
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Annals, May 1986; 16(5):272-275. |
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| 24. Melson SJ, Rynearson EK: Short-term psychotherapy. Intensive group therapy for functional |
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illness. Psychiatric Annals, December 1986; 16(12):667-692. |
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| 25. Rynearson EK: Compulsive Caregivers: Reaction to Separation. Virginia Mason Clinic |
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Bulletin 41:123-128; 1987. |
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| 26. Rynearson EK: Bereavement after unnatural dying, in Zisook S (Ed): Advances in |
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Bereavement. American Psychiatric Press, 1987, pp. 77-93. |
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| 27. Rynearson EK: The psychotherapy of pathologic grief: Revisions and limitations. Psychiatric |
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Clin North Am September 1987; 10(3):487-499. |
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| 28. Rynearson EK: Personal reflections: Circadian rhythms. Psychiatric Annals, October 1987; |
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17(10):642. |
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| 29. Rynearson EK: Psychologic effects: A practical approach, in: Metz R (Ed): Management of |
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of the Diabetic Patient. WB Saunders Co., 1988, pp. 10-19. |
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| 30. Rynearson EK: Homicide of a child, in: Ochberg FM (Ed): Post-Traumatic Therapy and |
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Victims of Violence. Brunner/Mazel Psychosocial Stress Series No. 11, 1988, pp. 213-224. |
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| 31. Rynearson EK, Melson SJ: Short-term intensive group psychotherapy: a new approach to the |
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functionally ill, in: Halperin D (Ed): Group Dynamics: New Paradigms & New Perspectives. Littleton, MA, P.S.G. Publishers, 1989, pp. 280-294. |
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| 32. Rynearson EK: Pathologic grief. Psychiatric Update. The American College of |
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Psychiatrists, Vol. 10, 1990, pp.1-9. |
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| 33. Rynearson EK: Pathologic grief: The queen's croquet ground. Psychiatric Annals, June |
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1990: 20(6):295-303. |
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| 34. Rynearson EK: Pathologic grief: Does it exist and does it need treatment? Directions in |
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Psychiatry, June 1990; 10(13). |
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| 35. Rynearson EK, McCreery JM: Bereavement after homicide: A synergism of trauma and loss. |
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Am J Psych, February 1993; 150(2):258-261. |
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| 36. Rynearson EK, Purrington J, Sinnema C, Olson D: Support project for bereavement after |
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homicide. Bulletin Virginia Mason Clinic, Spring 1994; 48:33-41. |
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| 37. Rynearson EK: Psychotherapy of bereavement after homicide. Journal of Psychotherapy |
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Practice and Research, Fall 1994; 341-347. |
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| 38. Rynearson EK: Bereavement after homicide. A comparison of treatment seekers and |
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refusers. British Journal of Psychiatry April 1995; 166:507-510. |
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| 39. Rynearson EK: Bereavement. Book chapter, Primary Care of Women, First Edition. |
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Shelley Reinhardt (Ed), Appleton-Lange, Norwal, CT, 1995, pp. 108-111. |
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| 40. Rynearson EK: Psychotherapy of Bereavement after Homicide: Be Offensive. In Session: |
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Psychotherapy in Practice 1996;2:47-57. |
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| 41. Rynearson EK, Geoffrey R: Bereavement after homicide: Its assessment and treatment. Book |
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chapter 7, Traumatology of Grieving, Charles R. Figley (Ed), Brunner/Mazel, Philadelphia, PA, 1999, pp. 109-130. |
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| 42. Rynearson EK, Sinnema CS: Supportive group therapy for bereavement after homicide. In: |
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Group Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Blake D, Young BH, (Eds), 1999, pp. 137-147. |
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| 43. Rynearson EK, Favell J: Bereavement after violent dying. Primary Psychiatry 2002: 6: |
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47-51. |
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| 44. Rynearson EK, Favell J, Belluomini V, Gold R, Prigerson H: Bereavement Intervention with |
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Incarcerated Youths. In: Am. Acad. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; Aug 2002: 41(8): 893-4. |
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| 45. Rynearson EK,Favell JL, Saindon C: Group Intervention for Bereavement after |
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Violent Death. Psychiatric Services 2002; 53(10): 1340 |
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| 46. Rynearson EK: The Narrative Labyrinth of Violent Dying. Death Studies 2005: 29: 351-360 |
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| 47. Rynearson EK, Johnson T, Correa F: The Horror and Helplessness of Violent Death. |
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In: When Professionals Weep. Katz R, Johnson T, (Eds), Routledge, 2006,
pp 139-155
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| 48. Rynearson EK, Favell J, Belluomini V, Gold R, Prigerson H: Restorative Retelling with |
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Incarcerated Juveniles. In: Violent Dying: Resilience and Intervention beyond the Crisis. Taylor and Francis, New York, NY, 2006, pp 275-291. |
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| 49. Rynearson EK, Correa F, Favell J, Saindon C, Prigerson H: Restorative Retelling after |
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Violent Dying. In: Violent Dying: Resilience and Intervention beyond the Crisis.
Taylor and Francis, New York, NY, 2006, pp195-216.
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| 50. Salloum A, Rynearson EK: Family Resilience after Violent Death |
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In: Violent Dying: Resilience and Intervention beyond the Crisis.
Taylor and Francis, New York, NY, 2006, pp47-63.
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| 51. Gibson, L.E., Ruzek, J.I., Naturale, A.J., Watson, P.J., Bryant, R.A., Rynearson, T. |
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Interventions for individuals after mass violence and disaster: Recommendations from the roundtable on screening and assessment, outreach, and intervention for mental health and substance abuse needs following disasters and mass violence. Journal of Trauma Practice 2007: 5 (4): pp 1-28. |
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| 52. Rynearson, E.K., Care in the Context of Fear, Reflective Practice, 2008: 28: 151-3. |
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| 53. Rynearson, EK, The Picnic, Am. J. Psychiatry, 2009: 166: 855-6. |
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| 54. Rynearson, EK, The Clergy, the Clinician, and the Narrative of Violent Death, |
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Pastoral Psychology, 2010: 59: 171-190. |
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| 55. Rynearson, EK, Salloum, A.: Restorative Retelling: Revising the Narrative of Violent |
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Death. In: Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society Bridging Research and Practice. Routledge, New York, 2011, pp 177-188. |
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| 56. Rynearson, EK, Stroebe, M., Schut, H.: Complicated Grief after Violent Death: |
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Identification and Intervention, In: Complicated Grief: Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals. Routledge, New York, NY, 2012, pp 278-92. |
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| 57. Rynearson, EK: Invoking an Alliance with the Deceased after Violent Death, In: |
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Techniques of Grief Therapy, editor: Robert Neimeyer, Routledge, New York NY, 2012 pp 91-4. |
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| 58. Rynearson, EK, The Narrative Dynamics of Grief after Homicide, Omega, 2012: 65, #3, |
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pp. 239-249. |
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Books
Internet Site (Updated references on violent death bereavement)
Violent Death Bereavement Society – vdbs.org
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