Category: Death, Grief, Bereavement

Human Mourning (Emergent Literatures) (English and Spanish Edition)

Price: $28.96

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press : 1990-02T

Seller ID: mon0000676865

ISBN-13: 9780816618101

Condition: VeryGood

Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series)

By: Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Companion Press : 2003-11-01

Seller ID: mon0000042384

ISBN-13: 9781879651371

Condition: Good

Offers 100 practical, here-and-now suggestions for helping widowers or widows mourn well so they can go on to live well and love well again. Whether your spouse died recently or long ago, you will find comfort and healing in this compassionate book.
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Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss (Theories of Representation and Difference)

By: Allen, Carolyn

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Indiana University Press : 1996-02-22

Seller ID: mon0000668644

ISBN-13: 9780253210470

Condition: VeryGood

"Allen's book will . . . provide the categories that will deepen our understanding of lesbian relationships and of lesbian fiction." --Lesbian Review of Books"Barnes scholars will . . . want to pick up Carolyn Allen's new book, for it not only offers perceptive readings of Nightwood and the "Little Girl" stories . . ., but traces the example of Barnes's exploration of lesbian power and loss in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson, Rebecca Brown, and the underrated Bertha Harris." --Review of Contemporary Fiction" . . . fascinating . . . a] fine volume . . . " --Choice"Following Djuna is a fascin...
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The Orphaned Adult: Confronting the Death of a Parent

By: Angel, Marc D.

Price: $5.69

Publisher: Human Sciences Pr : 1987-07-01

Seller ID: mon0000666584

ISBN-13: 9780898853346

Condition: Acceptable

Ex-library book with usual markings.
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Adaptation to Loss through Short-Term Group Psychotherapy

By: Azim, Hassan F.A.,McCallum, Mary,Piper, William E.

Price: $2.34

Publisher: The Guilford Press : 1992-02-14

Seller ID: mon0000557111

ISBN-13: 9780898627961

Condition: VeryGood

For clinicians working with individuals who suffer from pathological grief, this volume integrates theory, practice, and research to describe a time-limited, interpretive group therapy approach. The volume begins with a review of epidemiological data, an examination of specific issues such as the distinction between normal and abnormal reactions to loss, and a summary of major psychoanalytic theories of pathological grief. Also discussed are societal changes that have affected the resources available to loss patients. Then, a step-by-step description of the Short-Term Group Therapy Program is ...
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Pet Loss: A Spiritual Guide

By: Harris, Julie

Price: $2.34

Publisher: Lantern Books : 2002T

Seller ID: mon0000701714

ISBN-13: 9781590560280

Condition: VeryGood

While it is absolutely normal and healthy to mourn a deceased pet, the grieving process can be crippling emotionally, mentally and even physically. This work covers the psychological facts about the human and animal bond and how to deal with the initial shock of their loss.
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Midrash and Literature

By: Hartman, Geoffrey H. and Sanford Budick, eds.

Price: $7.84

Publisher: Yale University Press : 1986-01-01

Seller ID: mon0000693002

ISBN-13: 9780300041989

Condition: Good

A few marked/highlighted passages.
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Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City

By: Justice, Christopher

Price: $29.99

Publisher: SUNY Press : 1997-02-27

Seller ID: mon0000653518

ISBN-13: 9780791432617

Condition: Good

Dying the Good Death is a unique ethnography, the first to focus on the experiences of dying at the end of the life cycle. In a region of northern India, some people at the end of their lives leave their villages and travel to the Hindu holy city of Kashi to die. These pilgrims expect that by dying in Kashi they will obtain the spiritual reward of moksha--liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. Based on fieldwork conducted in Kashi's hospices or "mansions of liberation," Christopher Justice introduces us to a number of dying individuals and their families, providing rich and evocative ...
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An Empty Cradle, a Full Heart: Reflections for Mothers and Fathers After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death

By: Lafser, Christine O

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Loyola Press : 1998-10-01

Seller ID: mon0000658156

ISBN-13: 9780829411737

Condition: VeryGood

"Bereavement after the loss of a baby is often quiet and lonely," writes Christine O'Keeffe Lafser, who has twice lost a child to death. "There is no wake or funeral, no grave site, no memorial to our baby's life or death. . . . Since there are no real memories of our little one's life, people have a hard time comprehending the depth of our love and grief." In these reflections, Lafser offers grieving parents the empathy and courage that can come only from one who has walked the same difficult path."Chris expressed so many of my thoughts and feelings and made me feel so normal. . . . The great...
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A Cross Cultural Look at Death, Dying and Religion

By: Parry, Joan,Ryan, Angela

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co : 1995-01-01

Seller ID: mon0000675248

ISBN-13: 9780830413331

Condition: VeryGood

This important collection explores how people of various backgrounds -religious, ethnic, gender, and/or sexual orientation- cope with death, dying, and grieving. It is a guide for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, other practitioners, educators, and students who are concerned with helping persons who are dying and families who are grieving, and who must understand why certain groups react as they do to such events.
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