| ||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.55
Trade in Bereavement (4th Edition): Studies of Grief in Adult Life for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.55, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Plus, get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
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 )
Review
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
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence
Psychoanalysis, or 'the talking cure', as it was first called, was discovered by Breuer in 1881 when he started treating an intelligent, imaginative girl of twenty-one, Anna O. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Psychoanalysis, or 'the talking cure', as it was first called, was discovered by Breuer in 1881 when he started treating an intelligent, imaginative girl of twenty-one, Anna O. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
51 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
Format:Paperback
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!
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!
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Medical & Healthcare Practitioners > Other Branches of Medicine > Psychiatry
- Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry
- Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Self Help
- Books > Science & Nature > Medicine
- Books > Science & Nature > Reference > Psychology & Psychiatry
- Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
