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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist. She is responsible for developing the famous theory on the five stages of grief, which bears her name (the Kübler-Ross model).

She studied in Switzerland and the United States, and later became an instructor at the University of Chicago. She was particularly interested in death and near-death experiences, and published the influential book On Death and Dying in 1969, where she presented the grief process. She co-founded the American Holistic Medical Association.