[PDF] Grief And Its Transcendence eBook

Author : Adele Tutter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317606361

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Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity is a landmark contribution that provides fresh insights into the experience and process of mourning. It includes fourteen original essays by pre-eminent psychoanalysts, historians, classicists, theologians, architects, art-historians and artists, that take on the subject of normal, rather than pathological mourning. In particular, it considers the diversity of the mourning process; the bereavement of ordinary vs. extraordinary loss; the contribution of mourning to personal and creative growth; and individual, social, and cultural means of transcending grief. The book is divided into three parts, each including two to four essays followed by one or two critical discussions. Co-editor Adele Tutter’s Prologue outlines the salient themes and tensions that emerge from the volume. Part I juxtaposes the consideration of grief in antiquity with an examination of the contemporary use of memorials to facilitate communal remembrance. Part II offers intimate first-person accounts of mourning from four renowned psychoanalysts that challenge long-held psychoanalytic formulations of mourning. Part III contains deeply personal essays that explore the use of sculpture, photography, and music to withstand, mourn, and transcend loss on individual, cultural and political levels. Drawing on the humanistic wisdom that underlies psychoanalytic thought, co-editor Léon Wurmser’s Epilogue closes the volume. Grief and its Transcendence will be a must for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and scholars within other disciplines who are interested in the topics of grief, bereavement and creativity.

Author : Adele Tutter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317606353

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Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity is a landmark contribution that provides fresh insights into the experience and process of mourning. It includes fourteen original essays by pre-eminent psychoanalysts, historians, classicists, theologians, architects, art-historians and artists, that take on the subject of normal, rather than pathological mourning. In particular, it considers the diversity of the mourning process; the bereavement of ordinary vs. extraordinary loss; the contribution of mourning to personal and creative growth; and individual, social, and cultural means of transcending grief. The book is divided into three parts, each including two to four essays followed by one or two critical discussions. Co-editor Adele Tutter’s Prologue outlines the salient themes and tensions that emerge from the volume. Part I juxtaposes the consideration of grief in antiquity with an examination of the contemporary use of memorials to facilitate communal remembrance. Part II offers intimate first-person accounts of mourning from four renowned psychoanalysts that challenge long-held psychoanalytic formulations of mourning. Part III contains deeply personal essays that explore the use of sculpture, photography, and music to withstand, mourn, and transcend loss on individual, cultural and political levels. Drawing on the humanistic wisdom that underlies psychoanalytic thought, co-editor Léon Wurmser’s Epilogue closes the volume. Grief and its Transcendence will be a must for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and scholars within other disciplines who are interested in the topics of grief, bereavement and creativity.

Author : Ashley Davis Bush
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1101532750

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“Compassionate, poignant, and practical. . . . Transcending Loss will be a great blessing on your lifetime journey of recovery.”—Harold Bloomfield, MD, psychiatrist and author of How to Survive the Loss of Love and How to Heal Depression Death doesn’t end a relationship, it simply forges a new type of relationship—one based not on physical presence but on memory, spirit, and love. There are many wonderful books available that address acute grief and how to cope with it. But they often focus on crisis management and imply that there is an "end" to mourning, and fail to acknowledge grief’s ongoing impact and how it changes through the years. “This is a book about death and grief, yes, but more important, it is a book about love and hope. I have learned from my experience and interviews with courageous people about pain, struggle, resiliency, and meaning. Their stories show over time, you can learn to transcend even in spite of the pain.”—from the introduction by Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW

Author : Ashley Davis Bush
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 163341003X

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You Are Not Alone in Your Grief and Bereavement A pocketbook full of hope for one of the hardest experiences to go through, this guide will be the friend who listens to you and offers you the strength to smile again. It's easy to feel unmoored when we lose someone close. We need to find a new rhythm to our days and new ways to connect to the ones we've lost. How does one move on after the death of a loved one? Ashley Davis Bush wrote this book to offer you just that: small doses of comfort and hope for getting through your day when you are still heavy with grief. There can be joy even in the darkest of times. Each bite-sized reading offers reassurance that healing is possible, whether it's an ordinary day of living with loss or a special anniversary day. Poetic words, combined with photographic images throughout the book, help provide solace along with the perspective that love always transcends even the deepest loss. Learn how to find: • Comfort through grief • Hope from pain • Life after loss “Death doesn't end the relationship, it simply forges a new type of relationship─one based on memory, spirit, and love...” – Ashley Davis Bush, LICSW If you have read books like Tuesdays with Morrie, Finding Meaning, or Healing After Loss, then you’ll find comfort and strength in Ashley Davis Bush’s Hope & Healing for Transcending Loss.

Author : David R. Loy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1614295476

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Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of life, death, and what motivates us. Whatever the differences in their methods and goals, psychotherapy, existentialism, and Buddhism are all concerned with the same fundamental issues of life and death—and death-in-life. In Lack and Transcendence (originally published by Humanities Press in 1996), David R. Loy brings all three traditions together, casting new light on each. Written in clear, jargon-free style that does not assume prior familiarity, this book will appeal to a wide variety of readers including psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, scholars of religion, Continental philosophers, and readers seeking clarity on the Great Matter itself. Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy, particularly Freud, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom, and Otto Rank; great existentialist thinkers, particularly Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre; and the teachings Buddhism, particularly as interpreted by Nagarjuna, Huineng and Dogen. This is the definitive edition of Loy’s seminal classic.

Author : Marie S. Dezelic
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780984640867

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Loss and Grief are among the most difficult things we deal with in life. Significant Loss of all types, can disrupt our lives in many ways. It affects our mind, body, and spirit, and unaddressed can change our path forward. This Grief Handbook is meant to be a guide and companion through your personal, unique Grief process, helping you through the often difficult winding path of Grief, from the initial shock to recovering Meaning in your life. Whether you are experiencing grief, or you are a clinician or the support network for the griever, this book is intended for you. A grief shared is a grief transformed.This Book Will Help You With:?Understanding and experiencing the journey of Recovering Meaning within Loss.?Navigating the new terrain of grief and change.?Learning about the stages, phases and anatomy of grief.?Gaining the practical tools to handle the difficult moments, checklists, hospitals, the Do's and Don'ts, children, holidays??The Continual Phase of Grief-Recovering Meaning, from our Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy Model.?Healing and comfort through Meaning, Memory, Restoration and Re-Activation.?Guided step-by-step Meaning-Centered Techniques for Recovering Meaning and Purpose.?Addressing crucial factors in the healing process-Grief-Related Anger, Guilt, Forgiveness, Hope, Healing, and Meaning.?And provides powerful visual Conceptual Pictographs-Handouts.We are capable of experiencing hope, healing, well-being and growth, even in the face of loss, when it seems nearly impossible. By having the tools and techniques to assist us with shifting our thoughts, new actions, and ways of being, we can rediscover Meaning, which can act as a medicine-helping to heal our suffering and ease our pain. Even in life's darkest and most difficult moments, slowly, step by step, it is possible to find our way back to the light and move away from the pain that holds us back, to live a life with Meaning and Purpose once more.

Author : Darcy L. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135280711

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This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives. It explores adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of the latest thinking in bereavement theory and research. The specific and unique aspects of different types of loss are discussed, such as infertility, aging, chronic illnesses and degenerative conditions, divorce and separation, immigration, adoption, loss of beliefs, and loss of employment. Harris and the contributing authors consider these from an experiential perspective, rather than a developmental one, in order to focus on the key elements of each loss as it may be experienced at any point in the lifespan. Concepts related to adaptation and coping with loss, such as resilience, hardiness, meaning making and the assumptive world, transcendence, and post traumatic growth are considered as part of the integration of loss into everyday life experience.

Author : Michael Frame
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 022680108X

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In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us—even the math-averse—to understand and cope with grief. We all know the euphoria of intellectual epiphany—the thrill of sudden understanding. But coupled with that excitement is a sense of loss: a moment of epiphany can never be repeated. In Geometry of Grief, mathematician Michael Frame draws on a career’s worth of insight—including his work with a pioneer of fractal geometry Benoit Mandelbrot—and a gift for rendering the complex accessible as he delves into this twinning of understanding and loss. Grief, Frame reveals, can be a moment of possibility. Frame investigates grief as a response to an irrevocable change in circumstance. This reframing allows us to see parallels between the loss of a loved one or a career and the loss of the elation of first understanding a tricky concept. From this foundation, Frame builds a geometric model of mental states. An object that is fractal, for example, has symmetry of magnification: magnify a picture of a mountain or a fern leaf—both fractal—and we see echoes of the original shape. Similarly, nested inside great loss are smaller losses. By manipulating this geometry, Frame shows us, we may be able to redirect our thinking in ways that help reduce our pain. Small-scale losses, in essence, provide laboratories to learn how to meet large-scale losses. Interweaving original illustrations, clear introductions to advanced topics in geometry, and wisdom gleaned from his own experience with illness and others’ remarkable responses to devastating loss, Frame’s poetic book is a journey through the beautiful complexities of mathematics and life. With both human sympathy and geometrical elegance, it helps us to see how a geometry of grief can open a pathway for bold action.

Author : J. Phillip Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Transcendence gently guides readers through the experiences that surround death through the lens of Eastern philosophy and the author’s own experience as a hospice counselor. All of us die, and most of us are called upon to support loved ones or friends in dying or in grieving a death. We wonder about the nature of this universal phenomenon: Is dying only an uninvited tragedy or can it also be seen as a rite of passage? Can one's end of life journey be a time of finding inner peace, completion, and even growth? Transcendence views life as a pilgrimage culminating in the Great Transition at death. Rather than fearing our end, it invites us to reach once more for personal and spiritual growth in our sacred journey. Drawing on insights from the ancient sages of India as well as modern hospice experiences, the author explores a spiritual art of dying as the last and most powerful rite of passage. The Mandala Wisdom Series is an introductory collection on Eastern wisdom and spirituality, providing readers with the tools to enhance their health and well-being.