13 Facts About George Bonanno

George A Bonanno is a professor of clinical psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, US He is responsible for introducing the controversial idea of resilience to the study of loss and trauma.

George Bonanno is known as a pioneering researcher in the field of bereavement and trauma.

George Bonanno's research found psychological resilience to be at the core of human grief and trauma reactions.

George Bonanno's finding of resilience overturns what has been the status quo assumption of a person's experience of grief and trauma in the West since Sigmund Freud nearly a century ago.

Many in the field of bereavement and trauma have found George Bonanno's finding of persistent resilience in the face of potentially traumatic events controversial.

George Bonanno has argued that universal counseling after potentially traumatic events does more harm than good, a point eventually verified by convincing research.

In 2002 and 2004, George Bonanno described the most common trajectories of grief or potential trauma.

George Bonanno coined the phrase "coping ugly" to describe his finding that grief and coping with grief take many forms.

George Bonanno forcefully argued early that scientific study of grief was possible.

The attitude of the field before George Bonanno could be summarized by Tom Golden, a prominent bereavement expert who specializes in male grief.

George Bonanno conducted multi-cultural research into grief and trauma, including studies in Nanjing, China; among war survivors in Bosnia-Herzegovina; and in trauma-exposed people in Israel and elsewhere.

George Bonanno observed that coping and emotion regulation strategies were commonly viewed as being either consistently adaptive or consistently maladaptive.

George Bonanno proposed that any solution to the paradox must account for both situational variability and the cost-benefit tradeoffs inherent in all behavioral responses, and further that these factors can be accommodated by the concept of flexible self-regulation.