Mary-Frances O'Connor
Psychologist and grief researcher
Mary-Frances O'Connor is a psychologist at the University of Arizona who researches what grief does to the brain and body. She wrote The Grieving Body.
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Born in Boulder, Colorado, United States
About Mary-Frances O'Connor
Mary-Frances O'Connor is an American psychologist at the University of Arizona. She directs the Grief, Loss, and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, where the focus is grief and its impact on the brain and body. Her book in our catalog is The Grieving Body. Her doctorate came from the University of Arizona in 2004, followed by a fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She later held a faculty post at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA, and she went back to Arizona in 2012. Journals that have published her research include the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and Psychological Science. In 2023 she received the Patricia R. Barchas Award in Sociophysiology from the American Psychosomatic Society. She grew up in Montana.