Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief [Paperback]

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.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 ResolutionsIn 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.USCopyright ? 1993 by Vamik D. Volkan and Elizabeth Zintl