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Colin Murray Parkes
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; 4th Revised edition edition (7 Oct 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141049413
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141049410
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I have been reading and learning from Colin Parkes' work on death, grief, and loss for more than half a century. During that time Parkes has emerged as the predominant world authority on the nature and consequences of bereavement (Robert Jay Lifton, Psychiatrist And Author )

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I have been reading and learning from Colin Parkes' work on death, grief, and loss for more than half a century. During that time Parkes has emerged as the predominant world authority on the nature and consequences of bereavement -- Robert Jay Lifton, Psychiatrist And Author

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51 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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We never expect the ones we love to ever leave us. But if they do with support from friends and family we can make it through.
This book shows that even in the dragedy of grief there is a pattern.
We are not alone, not the only ones, many people have been here before. No great jargon here - just some straight talking. Some help to work out where you are at - that you are not going mad - that grief has stages we must go through and work hard to go forward.
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By Candide
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This might be said to be the definitive work on bereavement, having been republished repeatedly since it was written in the early 1970s. It is essentially a scholarly work but, but is written in such a way as to be accessible to the educated member of the public - the empirical work is appendicised and the language kept jargon-free.

Parkes begins by explaining the fundamental psychological processes that underly bereavement in an account based upon Attachment Theory, arguing that bereavement represents the difficulties of the mind in adapting to a radical change in the psychosocial framework upon which it has hitherto worked. After this he looks in more detail at possible ways in which, and reasons that, the grieving process can go wrong - grief being repressed or continuing indefinitely - and ways in which psychologists and volunteers can help to avert this.

I cannot think of a great deal to say in evaluating this work: the account is extremely clear & detailed and is immaculately reseached, and one is left with the sense that not only does one have a comprehensive understanding of bereavement, but also an insight into the fundamental ways in which human attachments are both ruptured and formed. I recommend it highly to either the student of psychology or anyone with a personal interest in bereavement.
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Time 3 May 2011
By Glav
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I have only started reading the book and to date have found it appealing and very helpful! I didn't think I had any hidden fears or guilt feelings, but have found out I have.

For this reason I am taking the book slowly and am finding when I do it this way and apply it to my own owm particular cirumstances I am getting more value out of it.

I feel that if I read too much of it all at once I would be glossing over and may in effect miss something very important and helpful for ME!
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