Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family
Edited by Froma Walsh & Monica McGoldrick
- Paperback:
- 350 pages
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company; 2nd edition (April, 2004)
- Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 0393704386
- Dimensions:
- 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
- Weight:
- 1.6 pounds.
- Price:
- $24.00
This is the authoritative volume on the impact of death on the family system. Therapeutic guidelines are offered for working with the mourning process and resolving long-term complications. New chapters address such topics as spirituality, traumatic deaths, and stigmatized losses. A new section offers reflections by prominent family therapists on their own legacies of loss.
“This book has been for me as much an adventure of self-discovery as an enriching, challenging professional experience. It has expanded my capacity to think about one of the universal themes of human experience. I couldn't wish a better journey for the reader.” — Carlos E. Sluzki, M.D. Santa Barbara
“As health-care professionals and as fellow sufferers, we need the wisdom in this book. The clinical examples sparkle, the theory is complex yet understandable, the technical material flawless. Never maudlin, it moved me deeply and educated me as well.” — Don Bloch, M.D., Editor, Family Systems Medicine
“Living Beyond Loss demonstrates the enormous importance of experiences of loss in personal and familial disturbance. This fine collection of articles constitutes a significant contribution to our understanding and our ability to help It should be read by every family therapist. Indeed, I strongly recommend it to everyone in the mental health professions.” — Robert S. Weiss, M.D. U. Mass
“Not until now have family therapists mobilized themselves to write a book explicitly on the meaning and consequences of loss for families. In eloquent and comprehensive style, Froma Walsh and Monica McGoldrick have filled this gap. they and their coauthors have conceptualized and illustrated with poignant case examples the diversity of family reactions to loss and hte varied opportunities for creative forms of assistance by empathic and flexible clinicians.” — Lyman Wynne, M.D., Ph.D.