Life After Loss - The Lessons of Grief

How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world. In this comprehensive guide to the mourning process, Dr Volkan, a world-recognised authority on grief, shows how each mourning is as individualised as our fingerprints, encoded with our past history of losses. Anecdotal and compassionate, this is a profoundly moving and informative study of how grief and loss shape all our lives.

List of contents

Introduction , Uncomplicated Mourning , Crisis Grief , The Work of Mourning , Brutal Gifts , Complicated Mourning , Risk Factors , Stuck in Denial , Perennial Mourners , Engulfed Mourners , A Death in the Family , Resolutions , Adaptations and Therapy , Creative Resolutions

About the author

Vamik D Volkan

Summary

In this comprehensive guide to the mourning process, Dr Volkan, a world-recognised authority on grief, shows how each mourning is as individualised as our fingerprints, encoded with our past history of losses. Anecdotal and compassionate, this is a profoundly moving and informative study of how grief and loss shape all our lives.

Product details

• Authors: Vamik D Volkan, Vamik D. Volkan, Vamik D./ Zintl Volkan, Elizabeth Zintl
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2015
• EAN: 9781782203926
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-392-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works