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Author: Colin Murray Parkes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.640kg
ISBN: 9780415477185
ISBN 10: 0415477182
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 12 September 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Love and Loss manages to be both academic and written in prose that dances with love around its subject. - Bel Mooney, The Times This book represents the application of lovely and engaging prose to the description of keen scientific observations on attachment and separation. When it comes to capturing and conveying the bond between love and loss, no one holds a firmer grip than Colin Parkes. - Holly Prigerson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA An essential reference for all practitioners working directly with bereavement and grief. - Colin Feltham, Therapy Today Colin Murray Parkes, the doyen of bereavement research, has devoted much of his career to examining the relationship of love and grief !This volume is a milestone in the history of bereavement research and in our understanding of forms of complicated grief. - Margaret S. Stroebe, Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Love and Loss contains insight into the nature and origin of the acute and enduring clinical complications of loss, with separation and anxiety and its permutations as central elements. It also sets an agenda for future research. Dr. Parkes' accomplishment is creative and incomparable! My recommendation is to read it. -- Selby Jacobs, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA Destined to join Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life as another Parkes classic. - Ken Doka, The College of New Rochelle, USA Parkes' impressive study provides some new perspectives on the nature of attachment as developed in childhood, its effect upon the capacity (or not) to trust both oneself and others, and the influence this has on adult relationships and responses to bereavement!Love and Loss is the impressive outcome of a dedicated empiricist and a warm humanitarian. -- Linda Machin, Visiting Research Fellow, Keele University, UK
Love and Loss manages to be both academic and written in prose that dances with love around its subject. - Bel Mooney, The Times This book represents the application of lovely and engaging prose to the description of keen scientific observations on attachment and separation. When it comes to capturing and conveying the bond between love and loss, no one holds a firmer grip than Colin Parkes. - Holly Prigerson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA An essential reference for all practitioners working directly with bereavement and grief. - Colin Feltham, Therapy Today Colin Murray Parkes, the doyen of bereavement research, has devoted much of his career to examining the relationship of love and grief !This volume is a milestone in the history of bereavement research and in our understanding of forms of complicated grief. - Margaret S. Stroebe, Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Love and Loss contains insight into the nature and origin of the acute and enduring clinical complications of loss, with separation and anxiety and its permutations as central elements. It also sets an agenda for future research. Dr. Parkes' accomplishment is creative and incomparable! My recommendation is to read it. -- Selby Jacobs, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA Destined to join Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life as another Parkes classic. - Ken Doka, The College of New Rochelle, USA Parkes' impressive study provides some new perspectives on the nature of attachment as developed in childhood, its effect upon the capacity (or not) to trust both oneself and others, and the influence this has on adult relationships and responses to bereavement!Love and Loss is the impressive outcome of a dedicated empiricist and a warm humanitarian. -- Linda Machin, Visiting Research Fellow, Keele University, UK
Author Information
Colin Murray Parkes is a psychiatrist, researcher and author. He has contributed to and edited numerous books and articles on the nature of human attachments and loss. His Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life first published in 1972 and now in its third edition, remains a classic. He has been a Consultant psychiatrist at St Christopher's Hospice since 1966, and is Life President of Cruse Bereavement Care. In 1996 he was awarded an OBE for services to bereaved people.
