En aldrende skuespiller mindes sin ungdom i en lille by i Irland i 1950erne, da han femten år gammel havde en kærlighedsaffære med sin bedste vens mor. Samtidig plages han af mindet om sin datters selvmord ti år før og må efterhånden erkende, at hans erindringer ikke er så pålid…
Yvonne, a recently widowed American mother of two grown children, returns to Datça, Turkey, to relive memories of a happier time, but instead is troubled by her past and finds solace in her friendship with Ahmet, a young local boy
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 …
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father …
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
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…
Kort før hans død overdrages forfatteren morfarens notesbøger, og ved hjælp af disse stykkes hans livshistorie sammen i en blanding af roman og essay. Om fattige kår i opvæksten, kærligheden til faderen og de gruopvækkende oplevelser som soldat i 1. verdenskrig
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…