Love and loss : the roots of grief and its complications
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Love and loss : the roots of grief and its complications
Routledge, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-406) and index
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Description
Loving and grieving are two sides of the same coin: we cannot have one without risking the other. Only by understanding the nature and pattern of loving can we begin to understand the problems of grieving. Conversely, the loss of a loved person can teach us much about the nature of love.
Love and Loss, the result of a lifetime's work, has important implications for the study of attachment and bereavement. In this volume, Colin Murray Parkes reports his innovative research that enables us to bring together knowledge of childhood attachments and problems of bereavement, resulting in a new way of thinking about love, bereavement and other losses. Areas covered include:
patterns of attachment and grief
loss of a parent, child or spouse in adult life
social isolation and support.
The book concludes by looking at disorders of attachment and considering bereavement in terms of its implications on love, loss, and change in a wider context.
Illuminating the structure and focus of thinking about love and loss, this book sheds light on a wide range of psychological issues. It will be essential reading for professionals working with bereavement, as well as graduate students of psychology, psychiatry, and sociology.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Part I: Attachment and Loss. Review I: Attachment and Love. Review II: Loss and Change. The Research Project. Part II: Patterns of Attachment and Patterns of Grief. Secure and Insecure Attachments. Anxious/Ambivalent Attachments. Avoidant Attachments. Disorganised Attachments. Conclusions from Part II. Part III: Other Influences on Attachment and Loss. Separation. Trauma and Bereavement. Gender. Loss of a Parent in Adult Life. Loss of a Child. Loss of a Spouse or Partner. Social Isolation and Support. Other Influences. Conclusions from Part III. Part IV: Disorders of Attachment, Other Psychiatric Problems and their Prevention and Treatment. Attachments in Non-bereaved Psychiatric Patients. Disorders of Attachment. Therapies and Outcome. Final Conclusions.
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