Healing Pain: Attachment, Loss and Grief Therapy [Hardcover]

Nini Leick (Author), Marianne Davidsen-Nielsen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415060877 | ISBN-13: 978-0415060875 | Publication Date: May 1991

Feelings of loss, resulting in grief, are triggered by many situations besides the death of a loved one - for example, divorce, loss of health through accident or serious illness such as cancer or AIDS, or the birth of a handicapped child. "Healing Pain" investigates why the process of grief can be such a dramatic turning-point for those who undergo it, and why they can never remain as they were before. It is based on ten years of intensive work with people affected by, or at risk from, both normal and pathological grief. Nini Leick and Marianne Davidsen-Nielsen describe the original methods of treatment they have developed to help people suffering complex losses find the healing power inherent in healthy grief. Starting with a comprehensive account of the grief process and an outline of the classical models, they give advice on how to work with normal and pathological grief in individual or group settings. The treatment methods described can be used and adapted by all professionals who work with grief, helping them to identify people threatened by pathological grief and suggesting how to find out precisely where in the grief process the mourner may be stuck.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Healing Pain: Attachment, Loss and Grief Therapy is written in a pragmatic manner; its content is organised in a systematic and dynamic fashion. The references are classical in nature, but the authors elucidate upon theory with excellent illustrations from their practice. The nature of attachment and loss is explored with language which professionals will find relates well to their own experience. The book's real strength is that it equips the lay person with a means for understanding grief and loss without the alienating use of obtuse pedantry.
–Kevin Kendrick, Nursing Standard, November 5, 1991 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Danish --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (May 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415060877
• ISBN-13: 978-0415060875
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• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,342,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Takes Kubler-Ross a step further., June 5, 1999

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This review is from: Healing Pain: Attachment, Loss, and Grief Therapy (Paperback)

This is an informative book for professionals. The information is concise, clear and helpful. As a therapist running grief groups, this book taught me some new ways to work with my clients to help them through this difficult process. Thank you Nini and Marianne.

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful in times of loss and pain., June 29, 1998

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This review is from: Healing Pain: Attachment, Loss, and Grief Therapy (Paperback)

This book is brilliant on a scholarly as well as a human level. It helped me enormously in the process of mourning my mother - and it also got me very interested in the subject of grief work. It is accessible for the layperson and well documented and researched for the professional. I can't reccomend it enough.