Lightroom freezing on an image after removing image from lightroom

When I'm culling images in lightroom, at random and often enough to be a major hindrance to workflow, the image currently selected will be frozen on the screen. In the bottom window, I can still delete images and toggle between images but the image that was there and deleted remains in the main window and work area. If I try to toggle to another module I get a pop-up error "an error occurred when attempting to change modules." 

If I shut down lightroom and restart it, the problem is solved but this error recurs after just a few photos. It has been happening so often that a task that used to take a few hours now takes the better part of a day.

I've tried restarting the computer, Lightroom is up to date and the issue has persisted through an update. Reinstalling lightroom, did not work either.