Wherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – it has endured across time, societies and cultures from the earliest human communities to the present day. But the way we deal with grief is changing. Increasingly, we are diagnosing grief as a medical condition to be treated rather than embracing it as a natural part of being human. In this book, Svend Brinkmann gets to the heart of what it is to grieve, arguing that the sorrow we experience after the death of a loved one is a necessary and meaningful dimension of human existence. However painful, it unites us all. As humans we are uniquely privileged to feel grief. Rather than trying to escape or smother grief, we must allow ourselves to feel and accept it as the price we pay for love.
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Preface1. Introduction: The century of grief2. Grief as a foundational emotion3. The phenomenology of grief4. The body in grief – grief in the body5. The ecology of grief6. Grief as a psychological diagnosis?7. A homeless loveBibliographyNotes
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781509541232
Publisert
2020-04-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Polity Press
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
208
Forfatter
Oversetter