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Informationen zum Autor Samuel C. Heilman Klappentext The contributions to this volume are based on a conference held in on the first anniversary of September 11, 2001. This sensitive and heartfelt volume relates specifically to issues of death, bereavement, and mourning in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center, but the applications to other individual and catastrophic events is obvious. The contributers do not simply explore how people deal with bereavement or are psychologically affected by extreme grief: they address how people can try to find meaning in tragedy and loss, and strive to help restore order in the wake of chaos. Zusammenfassung An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction; 2: Local Heroes; 3: “A Passion of Grief and Fear Exasperates Us”: Death, Bereavement, and Mourning— What We Have Learned a Year after 9/11; 4: Shaping Sorrow; 5: Where are the Dead? Bad Death, the Missing, and the Inability to Mourn; 6: The Firefighter, the Ghost, and the Psychologist: Reflections on “The 9/11 Firehouse Project” *; 7: Grieving Families and the 9/11 Disaster; 8: Traumatic Grief and Bereavement Resulting from Terrorism; 9: Tragedy and Transformation: Meaning Reconstruction in the Wake of Traumatic Loss; 10: Coping with Chaos: Jewish Theological and Ritual Resources; 11: From Ground Zero: Thoughts on Apocalyptic Violence and the New Terrorism 1; 12: The Apocalyptic Face-Off: The Culture of Death after 9/11; 13: The Aftermath of Death: Collective Reintegration and Dealing with Chaos in Light of the Disaster of September 11
