Life after Loss : The Lessons of Grief.

COVER -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Uncomplicated Mourning -- Chapter I - Crisis Grief: The Hour of Lead -- Chapter II - The Work of Mourning: Assessing the Relationship and Letting Go -- Chapter III - Brutal Gifts: Loss as a Vehicle for Growth -- Part Two: Complicated Mourning -- Chapter IV - Risk Factors: Circumstances that Complicate -- Chapter V - Stuck in Denial: When Crisis Grief goes Awry -- Chapter VI - Perennial Mourners: When Loss has no Resolution -- Chapter VII - Engulfed Mourners: When Grief Turns to Depression -- Chapter VIII - A Death in the Family: How Parents and Children Mourn -- Part Three: Resolutions -- Chapter IX - Adaptations and Therapy -- Chapter X - Creative Resolutions: When Grief Inspires -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.