Wherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – it has endured across time, societies and cultures from the earliest human communities to the present day. But the way we deal with grief is changing. Increasingly, we are diagnosing grief as a medical condition to be treated rather than embracing it as a natural part of being human.
In this book, Svend Brinkmann gets to the heart of what...
Table des matières
Preface
1. Introduction: The century of grief
2. Grief as a foundational emotion
3. The phenomenology of grief
4. The body in grief – grief in the body
5. Th...
A propos de l’auteur
Svend Brinkmann lived quietly as a professor of psychology at Aalborg University until he published Stand Firm which became an overnight bestseller and quickly ...