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Necessary Losses (A fireside book) [Paperback]

Judith Viorst
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20 Jan 2003 0684844958 978-0684844954 1st Fireside Ed
"This perceptive book should absorb and enrich anyone who admits to being human."
Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Essayist Judith Viorst, who has humorously eased our journey to middle age, now turns her considerable talents to a more serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are an inevitable and necessary part of life. Arguing persuasively that through the loss of our mothers' protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper persepctive, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life, Judith Viorst has wirtten a life-affirming and life-changing book.


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  • Paperback: 447 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD; 1st Fireside Ed edition (20 Jan 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0684844958
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684844954
  • Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 2.7 x 21.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 57,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Helped me understand the death of my mother 2 July 1998
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A book that gave me great understanding to life, loss and those events we fear in life. I read this book over five years ago and look to it to provide support to a friend who recently lost a wife. It is an easy read but allows for great reflection about ones life as you read it. I recommend it to all that are ready for greater wisdom about life's pains.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, profound, perplexing and illuminating 22 May 2002
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This is a really excellent book for anyone who wants to know more about a psychoanalytic understanding of how people come to be the way they are. Central to Voist's marvellous synthesis of psychoanalytic theory is the argument that it is the way we are able to face and deal with the inevitable losses in life that determines our 'health'. And central to this ability is the stability and health of our earliest relationships with mother and father. This is not always an easy read - I suspect that for those who come to it without any previous knowledge of psychoanalytic theory it will be rather 'dense' - but I think it is a remarkable summary of some very complex and unapproachable models of human development. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful 14 Aug 2011
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Loved this book, many "Ah" moments that i could relate to. Its one to keep on the selves and keep coming back to.
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