On Deaths and Endings: Psychoanalysts’ Reflections on Finality, Transformations and New Beginnings eBook

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Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award! Can something as negative as loss also be a positive, transformative experience? Is it possible that not only individuals but also societies can be developmentally arrested by problematic mourning? On Deaths and Endings brings together the work of psychoanalytic scholars and practitioners grappling with the manifold issues evoked by loss and finality. The book covers the impact of endings throughout the life cycle, including effects on children, adolescents, adults, those near death and entire societies. New psychoanalytic perspectives on bereavement are offered based on clinical work, scholarly research and the authors’ own, deeply personal experiences. The contributors present compelling, often moving, enquiries into subjects such as the reconfiguration of self-states subsequent to mourning, the role of ritual and memorials, the tragic impact of unmourned loss, modern conceptualisations of the death instinct, and terror-based losses. In that much psychotherapy is conducted with people who have suffered some form of loss, this book will be an invaluable resource for all mental health professionals. The emphasis on the potential of working through the vicissitudes of these experiences will provide inspiration and hope both to those who have endured personal loss and to anyone working with grieving patients.

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9780415396622, 9780203939550, 9786610858842, 9781280858840, 9781134154906, 9781134154951

On Deaths and Endings: Psychoanalysts’ Reflections on Finality, Transformations and New Beginnings 1st Edition and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for On Deaths and Endings are 9781134154944, 1134154941 and the print ISBNs are 9780415396639, 0415396638. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780415396622, 9780203939550, 9786610858842, 9781280858840, 9781134154906, 9781134154951.