1st Edition

Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient

By E Mark Stern Copyright 1990
258 Pages
by Psychology Press

258 Pages
by Psychology Press

258 Pages
by Psychology Press

Coming at a time of renewed interest in the developmental changes of the life cycle, Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient is a rich resource that examines the impact of a spouse's death on an individual's mental health. Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts address a wide range of issues concerning loss, grief, and bereavement, and provide practical and creative approaches for both widowed persons and... Read more
Contents The Widowed and the Widowed Patient: A Preface (E. Mark Stern)
  • The Widow as Survivor and “Killer” (E. Mark Stern)
  • On Inspiration (Sharon Hymer)
  • Widowhood: Integrating Loss and Love (Ruth S. Farber)
  • When the Spouse Is Dead: The Alternative Approach of Experiential Psychotherapy (Alvin R. Mahrer, Terry M. Howard, Patricia A. Gervaize, and Donald M. Boulet)
  • Psychotherapist and Widower (Roy Persons)
  • Separation, Widowhood, and Divorce (Gladys Natchez)
  • The Loss Unit: Reflections on Widowhood (Daphne Barnes)
  • Treating the Widowed Client With Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) (Albert Ellis)
  • An Agenda for Treating Widowed Patents (Betty C. Buchsbaum)
  • Widowhood: The Labor of Grief (Robert J. Dunn and Amelia Vernon)
  • The Ties That Bind: Loyalty and Widowhood (David B. Seaburn)
  • Widowhood as a Time for Growth and Development (Jeanette Hainer)
  • Whom God Has Joined (Bruce J. Schell)
  • My Granddaughters Cope With the Death of Their Father (Neil Lamper)
  • Therapists Raised by Widowed Fathers (Merle R. Jordan)
  • Treating the Bereaved Spouse: A Focus on the Loss Process, the Self, and the Other (Simon Shimshon Rubin)
  • The Construing Widow: Dislocation and Adaptation in Bereavement (Linda L. Viney)
  • Object Loss and Pathalogical Consequence: A Study in the Psychological Treatment of Loss and Self-Injury (Louis Birner)
  • The Fullness of Emptiness (Edward A. Wise)

Biography

E Mark Stern