- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1 Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743263448
- ISBN-13: 978-0739468630
- Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
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In her first seminal book, ON DEATH AND DYING, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified the five stages of dying: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. In the years that followed, it became evident that these stages applied not only to the process of accepting death, but also to accepting other difficult and catastrophic life experiences. With ON GRIEF AND GRIEVING, Kubler-Ross and LIFE LESSONS co-author David Kessler revisit the five stages in order to create a deeply empathetic and accessible guide for those in grief. The authors deliver insights and advice designed to help readers normalise their lives and find the courage to continue. Featuring sections on sadness, hauntings, dreams, coping, isolation, children, healing, and even sex, ON GRIEF AND GRIEVING fuses practical wisdom with spiritual insight as it forges a path to wholeness.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross is a renowned doctor, psychiatrist, philosopher, healer and humanitarian. She has a worldwide reputation: her books have been translated into 20 languages. She has been called 'a true international citizen' and has received over 25 honorary doctorates. David Kessler is the author of THE RISING OF THE DYING (HarperCollins, 1997) and is a recognised leader in the field of hospice care. He has worked with many famous figures worldwide - from Mother Teresa to Elizabeth Taylor - and has made regular appearances on US television.
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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
EXCELLENT BOOK. This is essential reading for all of us you have/will lose a loved one - grief is such a personal thing, but this books shows the common demoninators, a book to be read and reread during a time of grieving - cannot recommend highly enough. I have given this book as gifts to grieving friends and they could not believe it when they read in print how they were feeling. In fact this book should be read by everyong on the planet - it will equip us better and help us find the way, not only for ourselves but for whose who may need our support in their dark time of grieving.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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I have read a number of books now by Elisabeth K.R. and this one, rather appropriately, was edited after she passed away by co-author David Kessler.
The book is set out in easy to understand chapters and deals with each of the Five Stages using real-life examples to help clarify each one.
I think this book would be extremely helpful and "a beacon of light" for anybody who is grieving over the loss of a loved one, anybody who is finding it hard to find the right words, or for anybody wanting to expand their emotional person-centred counseling/listening skills, as it not only teaches you the theory, it also teaches you to feel.
The book is set out in easy to understand chapters and deals with each of the Five Stages using real-life examples to help clarify each one.
I think this book would be extremely helpful and "a beacon of light" for anybody who is grieving over the loss of a loved one, anybody who is finding it hard to find the right words, or for anybody wanting to expand their emotional person-centred counseling/listening skills, as it not only teaches you the theory, it also teaches you to feel.
72 of 74 people found the following review helpful
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Written in the second person, On Grief And Grieving offers a deeply personal insight into the individual world of grief while reaching out to touch every reader who has ever been bereaved, or struggled for words to offer a friend.
This book addresses both the practical and emotional elements of bereavement, including complicated grieving and taboos. It gives implicit guidance to the professional working with bereavement through its refreshingly un-academic, personal style. Being the final word on the misunderstood Five Stages, it is a crucial textbook for counselling students and volunteers.
EKR and DK share their own pain and support you tenderly through yours. Written as Elisabeth was dying, this book has a special poignant personal involvement from both authors. They explain and accept every thought, emotion and difficulty you may experience, with the loving warmth to support you. They will guide you tenderly through emotions you have not yet named and help you find the healing tears you thought you had already cried. This book is essential reading for all those who have loved and lost.
It should be sold with a box of tissues.
This book addresses both the practical and emotional elements of bereavement, including complicated grieving and taboos. It gives implicit guidance to the professional working with bereavement through its refreshingly un-academic, personal style. Being the final word on the misunderstood Five Stages, it is a crucial textbook for counselling students and volunteers.
EKR and DK share their own pain and support you tenderly through yours. Written as Elisabeth was dying, this book has a special poignant personal involvement from both authors. They explain and accept every thought, emotion and difficulty you may experience, with the loving warmth to support you. They will guide you tenderly through emotions you have not yet named and help you find the healing tears you thought you had already cried. This book is essential reading for all those who have loved and lost.
It should be sold with a box of tissues.
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A most comforting and deeply empathic book for all those who grieve...
When my father died of aortic stenosis nearly five years ago, I was devastated. I had not anticipated my loss to be felt as intensely, for my grief to be so deeply experienced, so... Read more
Published 19 days ago by Cynthia Danute Cekauskas, LCSW
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five...
It was useful to compare the thinking of Kubler-Ross with that of what she had first written in 1970 in her book On Death and Dying. Read more
Published 2 months ago by megan
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Having suffered the loss of my 26 year old son 9 months ago, I found this book most helpful. I had no idea that grief has a basic pattern, the detail of which usually varies from... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Etch
Must have for therapists and anyone else
Having bought this book for the 3rd time (just bought the kindle version)as I kept lending it out to people and don't know where the last one went, I can highly recommend it to... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Hypnochick
Dealing with losing a loved one.
My doctor recommended this book. I've begun to read it slowly, a section at a time. I've realised what I'm reading is what I'm living. It helps to know that.
Published 18 months ago by suzy q
Very moving
The authors have written a very moving account of the phenomenology of grief through a vast array of vignettes. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Robert Mckeon
A great find
This was a great find. There were good examples which put things in context and the information was clear, easy to read with no unnecessary technical terminology. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Chrissi
A book with a narrow focus on intimate human relationships
My concern with the book is that despite being published in 2005, every example of grief involving couples (and there are lots) concerns a husband and wife relationship. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Kevin Sell
Extremely comforting.
For anyone who has recently lost a loved one, there is so much one can identify with. It is comforting to know one is not alone with their feelings and thoughts (no matter how... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Lexy
How to cope
This book is most helpful in the area of bereavement of a partner - a bit thin on other loss but all in all helpful and gives some useful coping techniques with unfamiliar strong... Read more
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