Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers About Grief and Bereavement [Hardcover]

Listening to the bereavedreally listeningbrings into sharp focus two things: their pain and their questions. In Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement, noted psychologist Robert Neimeyer compassionately engages the heartfelt inquiries of real bereaved people who have lost parents and partners, siblings and children, to illness, tragic accident, suicide and violence, and offers practical counsel on how to move forward toward a life that can again have meaning. Drawing on more than fifty years of experience in grief therapy and grounded in contemporary research on loss and resilience, this book is an indispensable guide to understanding the nuances of grief and adaptation, which is equally relevant to the bereaved themselves and to the therapists and professionals who strive to support them.

Part 1.? Introduction

1. Listening to the Bereaved

2. How to Use this Book

Part 2.? Who We Lose

3. Loss of a Husband

4. Loss of a Wife

5. Loss of a Partner or Close Relation

6. Loss of a Parent

7. Loss of a Child

8. Loss of a Sibling

9. Complicated Relationships

Part 3.? How We Lose

10. Fatal Illness

11. Fatal Accident

12. Suicide and Overdose

13. Homicide and Mass Tragedies

Part 4.? Further Questions

14. Practical and Philosophic Questions

15. Questions from Professionals

16. Training Resources for Professionals

Living Beyond Loss?takes real questions from real people about the most difficult moments of their lives and offers informed, compassionate counsels.