Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Feelings of loss, resulting in grief, are triggered by many situations besides the death of a loved one. Healing Pain investigates why the process of grief can be such a dramatic turning-point, and why people who undergo it are never the same as they were before. A bestseller in Scandinavia, it describes the treatment methods developed by the authors to help people find the healing power inherent in health grief and gives detailed and practical advice on how to work with normal and pathological grief in individual or group settings.
Synopsis
Complicated losses give people psychological wounds. Healing Pain investigates why the process of grief is such a dramatic turning point for those who undergo it, and why they can never remain as they were before. Some people become so strained, depressed or anxious that in one way or another they turn into patients. Others become healthier than before and gradually acquire a freer life by means of the psychological forces that are latent in the healing pain of grief.
Healing Pain is based on ten years of intensive work with people affected by, or at risk from, pathological grief. It describes in simple terms with many examples, the therapeutic methods of treatment they have found most effective in helping such people.
A very moving book, Healing Pain is addressed to psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers and anyone who wishes to understand feelings of grief at a deeper level.
Description
Translation of: Den n²dvendige smerte. Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.