Self-Help : Death, Grief, Bereavement

A thought-provoking meditation on grief, mortality, and the soul, through a reading of Freud's argument about creativity with poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Matthew von Unwerth, a young Freudian analyst, explores Freud's provocative ideas on the connections between creativity and mortality in this elegant literary musing. Taking as his starting point Freud's essay "On Transience," in which the analyst describes a walk with two unnamed companions (poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Rilke's lover, writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé), Unwerth examines the origins of human creativity from a psychoanalytic standpoint, tracing the arc of Freud's beliefs on the subject from his passionately curious teenage years to his death in 1939 after a long struggle with cancer. Drawing on a variety of literary and historical sources-from The Odyssey to Goethe to Freud's earliest letters-Freud's Requiem is both an intimate personal drama and an absorbing intellectual debate. In the spirit of books by Alain de Botton, Lesley Chamberlain, and Dava Sobel, it begins with a meeting of the minds among three of Europe's great intellects-an event Freud may have significantly reimagined for his essay-and weaves a delicate and moving treatise on art, love, death, and the way the three are inextricably linked. more...

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Gift of Tears is designed to help people who find that they have to cope, in the course of their work or daily lives, with the grief of others. The authors use theory, accessible case histories and exercises to involve the reader. more...

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"[A] thorough, thoughtful, sensitive, and up-to-date contribution that may be the best book available today for teaching bereavement, grief, and mourning .[H]ighly recommended for experienced grief professionals as well as for students.". -Jeffrey Kauffman, MA, MS, LCSW, BD, CT, CAS, BCETS. Psychotherapist in private practice, Philadelphia, PA. "[Offers] valued sensitivities, knowledge, and insights, and most importantly, age-appropriate interventions for a range of significant losses.". -Kenneth J. Doka, PhD. Author, Counseling Individuals With Life-Threatening Illness. Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan is unique in its treatment of grieving patterns and intervention strategies for different age groups. With this book, students and practitioners will learn how grief is influenced by biological responses to stress, psychological responses to loss, as well as social norms and support networks. The authors utilize a developmental framework, as each level of development from infancy through old age is addressed in four ways:. Reviews normal developmental issues, abilities, and challenges for the age in question. Analyzes how individuals of each age cope with serious loss of a significant other, and how they may experience life-threatening illness themselves. Examines how significant others react to and mourn the death of someone in that age range. Identifies the normative losses a person is likely to experience, and addresses protective and risky ways of coping with those losses. The authors review classical grief theories, such as postmodern and Dual Process Theory, and discuss current topics in grief, including continuing bonds, meaning making, ambiguous loss, and disenfranchised loss. With the help of this book, practitioners and students of grief counseling can learn to help patients of all ages understand that loss is at the heart of life and growth. more...

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Praise for the first edition:. 'This is a very user-friendly book. It is presented in a way which enables the reader to browse or go direct to a certain section, but at the same time is engaging enough to sustain one's interest to read the whole book.'. - Australian Social Work. 'Dyregrov's writing is clear in its description, and explicit in its advice, and demonstrates that the daunting task of helping a child through grief is both manageable and rewarding...The book will, I'm sure, become required reading for all those touched by the care of bereaved children.'. - Bereavement Care. '...a handy, small book ideal for teachers, social workers, counsellors, parents and others faced with the task of understanding children in grief and trying to help them.'. - Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry Newsletter. 'There is valuable material on grief at various ages and development... The question 'What makes the grief worse?' is neatly answered and a brief, but useful, section alerts the helper to differences in the grief experienced by boys and girls. The chapters on care for bereaved children are packed with good sense and practical suggestions… Many interesting ideas are given on ways to deal with bereavement in the setting of the classroom… There is much to commend this handbook. It is of manageable length, giving information concisely and supplementing it with well-chosen quotations… a valuable book which I would recommend to my colleagues and to parents, to those who run playgroups and to any who seek to help young people in bereavement.'. - Lifeline (Magazine of the National Association of Bereavement Services). 'For years, I have strongly advised…adults to read Grief in Children because I believe it is the most sympathetically written and accessible book on the topic. It is the thoughtful distillation of many years' clinical experience of working with bereaved children more...

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Newly updated and expanded to commemorate its 20th anniversary—this classic resource helps people complete the grieving process and move toward recovery and happiness. Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others’, the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity. Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss. New material in this edition includes:.:.; How to choose which loss you should work on first.; How to deal with growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home.; Loss of faith.; Loss of career.; Loss of health.; And much, much more. more...

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