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After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss Through the Years
For a parent, losing a child is the most devastating event that can occur. Most books on the subject focus on grieving and recovery, but as most parents agree, there is no recovery from such a loss. This book examines the continued love parents feel for their child and the many poignant and ingenious ways they devise to preserve the bond. Through detailed profiles of parents, Ann Finkbeiner shows how new activities and changed relationships with their spouse, friends, and other children can all help parents preserve a bond with the lost child. Refusing to fall back on pop jargon about "recovery" or to offer easy suggestions or standardized timelines, Finkbeiner's is a genuine and moving search to come to terms with loss. Her complex profiles of parents resonate with the honesty and authenticity of uncomfortable emotions expressed and, most importantly, shared with others experiencing a similar loss. Finally, each profile exemplifies the many heroic ways parents learn to live with their pain, and by so doing, honor the lives their children should have lived.
Book Details
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publish Date: Jul 14th, 1998
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.02in - 6.40in - 0.77in - 0.98lb
- EAN: 9780801859144
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Death, Grief, Bereavement• Death, Grief, Bereavement• Parenting - General
About the Author
Finkbeiner, Ann K.: - Ann K. Finkbeiner is an award-winning science journalist and regular contributor to Science, The Sciences, and USA Today and coauthor of The Guide to Living with HIV Infection, also available from Johns Hopkins.
Praise for this book
[W]ritten with warmth, depth, and sensitivity. . . it will be a comfort to those some way down the road, helping them understand their sorrow and pain, and affirming their own individual way of grieving.
--June Gooch, Newsletter of the Compassionate Friends
--June Gooch, Newsletter of the Compassionate Friends
The bravery that Ann Finkbeiner must have had to write this book is incredible. . . By using her own and other parents' experiences, the author makes the issues speakable, and a sense of peace through connectedness with these parents is conveyed to the reader.
--Marceil Bauman-Bork, MD, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
--Marceil Bauman-Bork, MD, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
Find a copy . . . It will exhaust and replenish you.
--Gary Grant, We Need Not Walk Alone
--Gary Grant, We Need Not Walk Alone
Enriching. One is struck by the mysterious power of attachment and love in the parent-child bond.
--Holly Perkins, M.D., Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
--Holly Perkins, M.D., Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Like mourning itself, this powerful book, much of it in the words of bereaved parents, evokes a series of reactions . . . It illustrates the hard fact [of human suffering] but also our resilience.
--New York Times
--New York Times
The first book to examine the long-term nature of parental grief through the tales of those who suffer it. Although the book includes most current grief research, its authorities are parents.
--Baltimore Sun
--Baltimore Sun