Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief

by Vamik D. Volkan, Elizabeth Zintl

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781815823
Publisher:	Karnac Books
Publication date:	08/21/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	174
File size:	330 KB

About the Author

Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is the president of the International Dialogue Initiative and a former president of the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, and the American College of Psychoanalysts. He received the Sigmund Freud Award given by the city of Vienna in collaboration with the World Council of Psychotherapy, and in 2015 received the Sigourney Award, honouring achievements for the advancement of psychoanalysis.
Elizabeth Zintl was an accomplished journalist who served as chief of staff in the office ot the University of Virginia's president. The Elizabeth Zintl Award from the University of Virginia Women's Center honors the professionalism, creativity and commitment that characterised Elizabeth Zintl's contribution to the university.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Uncomplicated Mourning
1) Crisis Grief: The Hour of Lead
2) The Work of Mourning: Assessing the Relationship and Letting Go
3) Brutal Gifts: Loss as a Vehicle for Growth

Part Two: Complicated Mourning
4) Risk Factors: Circumstances That Complicate
5) Stuck in Denial: When Crisis Grief Goes Awry
6) Perennial Mourners: When Loss Has No Resolution
7) Engulfed Mourners: When Grief Turns to Depression
8) A Death in the Family: How Parents and Children Mourn

Part Three: Resolutions
9) Adaptations and Therapy
10) Creative Resolutions: When Grief Inspires

Notes
Bibliography
Index