Personal Grief Rituals: Creating Unique Expressions of Loss and Meaningful Acts of Mourning in Clinical or Private Settings

ISBN-13: 9780815384120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Paul Martin

Opis

Personal Grief Rituals presents a new model for how bereaved individuals can create unique expressions of mourning that are tailored to their psychological needs and grounded in memories and emotions specific to the relationship they lost.

Spis treści

1. Cultural Grief Rituals and the Mourning Process: An Anthropological Perspective  2. Absence-and-Presence: The Subjective Experience of Loss, Grief, and Mourning  3. Designing Personal Grief Rituals  4. Confirming Absence: Rituals that Facilitate Acceptance of Loss  5. Expressing Grief: Rituals that Expand and Limit Emotional Experiences of Loss  6. Continuing Bonds: Rituals that Create an Enduring Connection  7. Moving Forward: Rituals that Embrace New Life

O autorze

Paul M. Martin is a licensed clinical psychologist, the assistant director of The Center for Grief Recovery, and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University. He specializes in psychotherapy for those struggling with complicated bereavement and regularly provides continuing education workshops and individual consultation for professionals.