Chronic Sorrow: A Living LossGrief and loss are burgeoning concerns for professional disciplines such as nursing, social work, family therapy, psychology, psychiatry, law, religion and medicine. Although understanding has increased in virtually all other areas of grief and loss, chronic sorrow has received scant attention. Chronic sorrowis a natural grief reaction to losses that are not final, but continue to be present in the life of the griever. This book views chronic sorrow in a life-span perspective, and reveals the effect on the griever and the people close to them. This book fills a void in the literature; and attempts to develop a comprehensive analysis of chronic sorrow that will secure its position within the field of grief and loss. |
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Contents
Chronic Sorrow as a Paradigm Shift | 21 |
Clinical Significance of Recognition | 35 |
Proposed Model of Chronic Sorrow | 42 |
Gender Differences | 50 |
Real Loss and Loss of Fantasies | 63 |
Families Loss and Chronic Sorrow | 103 |
Existential Issues | 131 |
Complicating Factors | 153 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Chronic Sorrow: A Living Loss Chronic Sorrow: A Living Loss, Susan Roos Series in death, dying, and bereavement, ISSN 1091-5427 |
| Author | Susan Roos |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1583913211, 9781583913215 |
| Length | 269 pages |
| Subjects | › Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement |
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