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Life after loss : the lessons of grief / Vamik D. Volkan and Elizabeth Zintl.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, United Kingdom : Karnac Books, 2015Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (vi, 165 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1782414509
  • 9781782414506
  • 9781781815823
  • 1781815828
  • 0429901437
  • 9780429901430
  • 0429476663
  • 9780429476662
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life after loss.DDC classification:
  • 155.9 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.G7 V65 2015eb
NLM classification:
  • 2016 G-557
  • BF 575.G7
Online resources:
Contents:
Crisis grief : the hour of lead -- The work of mourning : assessing the relationship and letting go -- Brutal gifts : loss as a vehicle for growth -- Risk factors : circumstances that complicate -- Stuck in denial : when crisis grief goes awry -- Perennial mourners : when loss has no resolution -- Engulfed mourners : when grief turns to depression -- A death in the family : how parents and children mourn -- Adaptations and therapy -- Creative resolutions : when grief inspires.
Summary: How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world. In this comprehensive guide to the mourning process, Dr Volkan, a world-recognised authority on grief, shows how each mourning is as individualised as our fingerprints, encoded with our past history of losses. Anecdotal and compassionate, this is a profoundly moving and informative study of how grief and loss shape all our lives.
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How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world. In this comprehensive guide to the mourning process, Dr Volkan, a world-recognised authority on grief, shows how each mourning is as individualised as our fingerprints, encoded with our past history of losses. Anecdotal and compassionate, this is a profoundly moving and informative study of how grief and loss shape all our lives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index.

Crisis grief : the hour of lead -- The work of mourning : assessing the relationship and letting go -- Brutal gifts : loss as a vehicle for growth -- Risk factors : circumstances that complicate -- Stuck in denial : when crisis grief goes awry -- Perennial mourners : when loss has no resolution -- Engulfed mourners : when grief turns to depression -- A death in the family : how parents and children mourn -- Adaptations and therapy -- Creative resolutions : when grief inspires.

Print version record.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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