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The heart of grief : death and the search for lasting love / Thomas Attig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attig, Thomas, 1945- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bereavement--Psychological aspects.
- Bereavement.
- Bereavement--Psychological aspects--Case studies.
- Grief.
- Grief--Case studies.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Death.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 'The Heart of Grief', Attig gives us an inspiring and profoundly insightful meditation on the meaning of grief, showing how it can be the path toward a lasting love of those who have died. Recounting dozens of stories of people who have struggled with deaths in their lives, he describes grieving as a transition from loving in presence to loving in separation.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; I. PLACES IN THE HEART; II. TRANSITIONS TO LASTING LOVE; III. MEMORIES; IV. PRACTICAL LIFE; V. LIFE OF THE SOUL: RETURNING HOME; VI. LIFE OF THE SPIRIT: REVIVING HOPE; Afterword: Grief Is a Journey of the Heart; Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 21, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773568-1
- 0-19-028366-1
- 1-280-65497-X
- 0-19-802795-8
- OCLC:
- 476013560
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