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Book SynopsisTheir wisdom is here presented to any in need of it.
Trade Review[W]ritten with warmth, depth, and sensitivity... it will be a comfort to those some way down the road, helping them understand their sorrow and pain, and affirming their own individual way of grieving. -- June Gooch Newsletter of the Compassionate Friends The bravery that Ann Finkbeiner must have had to write this book is incredible... By using her own and other parents' experiences, the author makes the issues speakable, and a sense of peace through connectedness with these parents is conveyed to the reader. -- Marceil Bauman-Bork, MD Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 2000 Find a copy... It will exhaust and replenish you. -- Gary Grant We Need Not Walk Alone 1999 Enriching. One is struck by the mysterious power of attachment and love in the parent-child bond. -- Holly Perkins, M.D. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1997 Like mourning itself, this powerful book, much of it in the words of bereaved parents, evokes a series of reactions... It illustrates the hard fact [of human suffering] but also our resilience. New York Times The first book to examine the long-term nature of parental grief through the tales of those who suffer it. Although the book includes most current grief research, its authorities are parents. Baltimore Sun
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. At First
Chapter 2. Marge Ford's Marriage
Chapter 3. Fathers and Mothers, Husbands and Wives: Changes in the Marriage
Chapter 4. Brandt Jones's Family
Chapter 5. Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters: Changes in the Relationship with Other Children
Chapter 6. Leight Johnson and His Fellow Man
Chapter 7. Janet Wright's Bad Friends
Chapter 8. Changes Toward Other People
Chapter 9. Chris Reed
Chapter 10. On Guilt
Chapter 11. Delores Shoda and the Uncertainty of Life
Chapter 12. Job's Children: Changes Toward God
Chapter 13. Diana Moores' World
Chapter 14. The Zero Point: Changes in Perspective
Chapter 15. Anne Perkins' Priorities
Chapter 16. Surface Ditties and Carpe Diem: Changes in Priorities
Chapter 17. Walter Levin
Chapter 18. The Nature of the Bond
Chapter 19. One Person Now: The Continuining Trajectory
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