Facts about Grief
When my wife died in 2004, I looked for books to help me understand grief and deal with it. Most of what I found was useless, based on highly subjective speculations and anecdotal evidence, although I did find one helpful resource: Therese Rando’s How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies. I found it lamentable that so little of the popular advice on grief was based on scientific evidence. So I was pleased to encounter in my local Wordsworth bookstore a new, evidence-based but highly readable review that corrects many widespread misconceptions about bereavement, Ruth Davis Konigsberg’s The Truth about Grief. Here are some of the facts about grief I learned from this book.
Continuing Education Courses on Grief:
- The Grieving Self
- The Magical Thoughts of Grieving Children
- Grief and Mourning: The Impact on Professional Caregivers
- Bereavement Groups: Successful Facilitation Strategies
Related Articles:
- Transformed by Grief (griefrevelations.com)
- Grief vs self-pity (waxinggibbous.net)
- On Grief and Loss: The Law of Attraction (bodyquirks.wordpress.com)
