In this illuminating account of how we grieve, Ruth David Konigsberg reveals that everything we thought we knew about confronting loss is wrong. She maintains that people cope with grief thanks largely to the human capacity for resilience, relying heavily on the work of psycholo…
Herbst 2009. Sandra Roth ist im neunten Monat schwanger. Mit Lotta, einem Wunschkind, die Vorfreude der Familie ist groß. Doch bei einer Routineuntersuchung erfährt sie, dass das Gehirn ihrer Tochter nicht ausreichend mit Blut versorgt wird. Welche Konsequenzen diese Gefäßfehlbi…
"Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing order and cause discontinuity in our sense of self and our perceptions of the world. To restore order, not only must human be…
Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The W…
An approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by a renowned expert in the field. Inherited family trauma is currently an area of growing interest, as science increasingly explores what we know intuitively: that the effects of trauma can…
