The Life of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD Quiz

Answer: Psychiatrist

Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross had originally wanted to be a pediatrician at Columbia Presbyterian. However, she had become pregnant which prevented her from practicing, so she chose to specialize in psychiatry instead.

Answer: Swiss

Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was born in Zurich, Switzerland. Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was one of identical triplets. Her sisters' names are Eva and Ericka.

Answer: Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross assessed the dying patient as a whole person

Even early on in her career, Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross realized that she and other people in her position, had to treat the dying patient as a whole person. This meant, dealing with the individual on the physical, mental and spiritual level of their being.

Answer: Emanuel Ross

Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Emanuel, known as "Manny", met when they were both studying at the University of Zurich medical school.

Answer: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance

Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross first defined the five stages of grief in the late 1960s. As Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross began to work with the terminal patient she came to realize that, in some form, the dying patient went through the five stages of grief. However, Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross after many years of practice knew that the five stages of grief could be applied to any type of loss, such as a person grieving for a failed marriage.

Answer: Montefiore Hospital, New York City, NY

Both Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and her husband Dr Emanuel Ross completed their residency at Montefiore Hospital, New York City, NY.

Answer: Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who developed dream interpretation theories.

Léopold Szondi was a Hungarian psychiatrist who developed the "Szondi test" which is very close to the ink blot test of judging different forms of personality.

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who developed Logotherapy, a form of analysis that focused on the concept that the primary desire for man is to find purpose in life.

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who developed psychoanalytic theories.

Answer: Shanti Nilaya; Home of Peace

Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross choose the Sanskrit term Shanti Nilaya for her special center in San Diego, CA, to help people come to terms with death. She trained staff there to conduct Life, Death and Transition workshops. These workshops were seven days long and helped people deal with the most difficult trials of life.

Answer: In her home in Scottsdale, AZ

Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross died at the age of 78. Now, in memoriam, the hospital has set up the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation which helps people come to terms with death and provides education in thanatology (the study of death) to the general public.

Answer: Butterflies

At the time, Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross didn't understand that significance of finding butterflies carved on the walls of the death camp. However, many years later as Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross started her pioneering work with thanatology, she realized that the butterfly was symbolic of the soul leaving the physical body.