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Author Wolfelt, Alan

Title Understanding grief : helping yourself heal / Alan Wolfelt
Published Muncie, Ind. : Accelerated Development Inc., ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 200 pages) : portrait
Contents Cover; UNDERSTANDING GRIEF: Helping Yourself Heal; Copyright; DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; What Is This Wound Called Grief?; How to Use this Book; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I THE ABILITY TO LOVE REQUIRES THE NECESSITY TO MOURN; TO LOVE AND TO MOURN; THE FREEDOM TO MOURN; CHAPTER II COMMON MYTHS ABOUT GRIEF AND MOURNING; IDENTIFYING THE MYTHS; Myth # 1: Grief and mourning are the Same experiences; Myth # 2: The experiences of grief and mourning progress in predictable and orderly stages; Myth # 3: Move away from grief, not toward it
Myth # 4: Following the death of someone loved the goal should be to ""get over"" your grief as soon as possibleMyth # 5: Tears expressing grief are only a sign of weakness; FINAL THOUGHfS ABour THE MYfHS; NOTES REGARDING PERSONAL GRIEFMYrHS I HAVE OBSERVED; CHAPTER III MY GRIEF IS UNIQUE; Factor #1: The Nature of the Relationship With the Person Who Died; Factor # 2: Circumstances Surrounding the Death; Factor # 3: Circumstances Surrounding Your Support System; Factor #4: Your Unique Personality; Factor #5: The Unique Personality of the Person Who Died
Factor # 6: Your Own Cultural BackgroundFactor # 7: Your Religious or Spiritual Background; Factor # 8: Other Crises or Stresses in Your Life; Factor # 9: Your Biological Sex; Factor #10: The Ritual or Funeral Experience; Other Influences on Your Grief; CHAPTER IV WHAT MIGHT I EXPECT?; SHOCK, DENIAL, NUMBNESS, DISBELIEF; DISORGANIZATION, CONFUSION, SEARCHING, YEARNING; ANXIETY, PANIC, FEAR; PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES; EXPLOSIVE EMOTIONS; GUILT AND REGREf; Survival Guilt; Relief-guilt Syndrome; Long-standing Personality Factors; Joy-guilt Syndrome; Magical Thinking and Guilt
LOSS, EMPTINESS, SADNESS, DEPRESSIONRELIEF, RELEASE; CHAPTER V AM I CRAZY?; TIME DISTORTION; OBSESSIVE REVIEW OR RUMINATING; SEARCH FOR MEANING; IS THIS DEATH GOD'S WILL?; TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS; SUICIDAL THOUGHrS; GRIEF ATTACKS OR MEMORY EMBRACES; ANNIVERSARY AND HOLIDAY GRIEF OCCASIONS; SUDDEN CHANGES IN MOOD; IDENTIFICATION SYMPTOMS OF PHYSICAL ILLNESS; POWERLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS; CRYING AND SOBBING; DREAMS; MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES; LOSS OF INTIMACY AND SEXUALITY; DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND GRIEF; SELF-FOCUS; CHAPTER VI RECONCILIATION AS HEALING; CRITERIA FOR RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER VII HOW AM I DOING?SIX CENTRAL NEEDS; To experience and express outside of yourself the reality of the death; To tolerate the pain that comes with the work of grief while taking care of yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually.; To convert your relationship with the person who died from one of presence to memory; To develop a new self-identity based on a life without the person in your life who died; To relate the experience of your loss to a context of meaning; To have an understanding support system available to you in the months and years ahead
Summary This classic resource helps guide the bereaved person through the loss of a loved one, and provides an opportunity to learn to live with and work through the personal grief process
Notes Includes index
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Subject Grief.
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
Loss (Psychology)
Bereavement.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Grief
Bereavement
Attitude to Death
grief.
mourning.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
SELF-HELP -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Death -- Psychological aspects
Bereavement
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects
Grief
Loss (Psychology)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135059309
1135059306
1299694985
9781299694989