The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss
- ISBN-10
- 0465021905
- ISBN-13
- 9780465021901
- Category
- Self-Help
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-12-28
- Publisher
- Basic Books (AZ)
- Author
- George A. Bonanno
Description
Contends that the five-stage grief process currently accepted as a standard therapeutic model fails to take into account the human capacity for resilience, analyzing various cultural mourning rituals while examining how inborn emotions precondition us to deal with loss in efficient and healing ways. Reprint.
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