First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long
introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the
light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field
since its first publication.
The late Peter Marris shows how understanding grief can help us
to understand processes of change, both personal and social, and to
handle them with more compassion for ourselves and others. He sees
grieving as the working out of a psychological reintegration, whose
principles are essentially similar whether the structures of
meaning of our life fall apart from the loss of a personal
relationship, of a predictable social context or of an
interpretable world. Marris draws on his wide-ranging research to
develop his argument. A study of widows, a description of the
devastating effects of urban renewal projects on people whose
familiar neighbourhoods are destroyed, an analysis of the
activities of tribal associations in Nigeria, and reflections on
the analogies between scientific and political revolutions are a
few of the studies Marris weaves together in tracing the meaning of
change and loss in human life."
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