1st Edition

Life After Loss The Lessons of Grief

By Vamik D. Volkan, Elizabeth Zintl Copyright 1993
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Vamik D Volkan