Forfatteren Joan Didion (f. 1934) fortæller om ægteskabet med forfatteren John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003), om hans pludselige død samtidig med datterens livstruende sygdom og om at leve med sorgen
Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don't acknowledge our own sorrows and longings, she says, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, or neglect
17-årige Violet og Finch går på samme skole. Violet er populær, men bærer på en stor sorg. Finch er skolens freak og har svært ved at indordne sig. En dag mødes de i skolens klokketårn, hvor Violet vil begå selvmord ved at springe ud. Det bliver starten på et usandsynligt forhold
Exploring grief: towards a sociology of sorrow
Under krigen i den Persiske Golf, hvor Irak har invaderet Kuwait, lider en ung mand af tabet af sin mor
In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartb…
"Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mort…
'Techniques of Grief Therapy' offers a whole new set of innovative approaches to grief therapy to address the needs of the bereaved. This volume provides a variety of specific and practical therapeutic techniques, each conveyed in concrete detail and anchored in an illustrative …
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field, includ…
Complicated Grief provides a balanced, up-to-date, state-of-the-art account of the scientific foundations surrounding the topic of complicated grief. In this book, Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut and Jan van den Bout address the basic questions about the concept, manifestations and…
"For decades, Life and Loss has been the the book clinicians have relied on for a full and nuanced presentation of the many issues with which grieving child grapple as well as an honest exploration of the interrelationship between unresolved g, education success, and responsible…
This volume presents a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss. Practitioners and students are given practical strategies for helping preschoolers through adolescents cope with different forms of bereavement, including death in the famil…