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On Bereavement (Paperback, Ed)
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On Bereavement (Paperback, Ed)
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'Insightful and refreshing.' - Professor Dennis Klass, Webster
University Religion Department, St. Louis, USA
'A tour de force.' - Dr Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych,
President of CRUSE
Some societies and some individuals find a place for their dead,
others leave them behind. In recent years, researchers,
professionals and bereaved people themselves have struggled with
this. Should the bond with the dead be continued or broken? What is
clear is that the grieving individual is not left in a social
vacuum but has to struggle with expectations from self, family,
friends, professionals and academic theorists.
This ground-breaking book looks at the social position of the
bereaved. They find themselves caught between the living and the
dead, sometimes searching for guidelines in a de-ritualized society
that has few to offer, sometimes finding their grief
inappropriately pathologised and policed. At its best, bereavement
care offers reassurance, validation, and freedom to talk where the
client has previously encountered judgmentalism.
In this unique book, Tony Walter applies sociological insights to
one of the most personal of human situations. On Bereavement is
aimed at students on medical, nursing, counselling and social work
courses that include bereavement as a topic. It will also appeal to
sociology students with an interest in death, dying and mortality.
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