1st Edition

Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness An Integrative Approach

By Mai-Britt Guldin, Carlo Leget Copyright 2025
182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness introduces the Integrated Process Model (IPM), a new interdisciplinary and interprofessional model for grief research, education, and accompaniment that distinguishes and integrates five dimensions of grief: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual. Central in this book is the insight that grief is connected to love because it is rooted in... Read more

Chapter 1 – Loss as the ultimate limitation of human existence 

Chapter 2 - The integrative process model of loss and grief 

Chapter 3 – The physical dimension. Why me?  

Chapter 4 - The emotional dimension. What can I do?  

Chapter 5 – The cognitive dimension. What have I lost?   

Chapter 6 – The social dimension. How can I be connected?    

Chapter 7 – The spiritual dimension. Can I believe in life again?    

Chapter 8 – Living our loss

Biography

Mai-Britt Guldin is an authorized psychologist, certified specialist in psychotherapy and supervision, Ph.D., from the Institute for Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is former professor and research director. Now, she works as senior researcher and director at the Center for Grief and Existential Values.

Carlo Leget is currently full professor in care ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and working at the Center for Grief and Existential Values.