Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections

233 Pages·2016·1.48 MB·English

by  Salman Akhtar, Gurmeet Kanwal

BEREAVEMENT
BEREAVEMENT
Personal Experiences and
Clinical Refections
Edited by
Salman Akhtar and Gurmeet S. Kanwal
First published in 2017 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road
London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2017 to Salman Akhtar and Gurmeet S. Kanwal for the edited
collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions.
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To
the memory of a good friend and great poet
Nida Fazli (1938–2016)
SA
the memory of my father
Piara Singh Kanwal (1928–2015)
GSK
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xi
INTRODUCTION xvii
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
Bereavement: the spectrum of emotional reactions 3
Salman Akhtar
SPECIFIC SITUATIONS
CHAPTER TWO
Death of mother 33
Kerry L. Malawista
vii
viii CoNTENTs
CHAPTER THREE
Death of father 57
Thomas Wolman
CHAPTER FOUR
Death of sibling 83
Frederick H. Lowy
CHAPTER FIVE
Death of spouse 97
Ruth H. Livingston
CHAPTER SIX
Death of child 117
Ann G. Smolen
CHAPTER SEVEN
Death of pet 143
Christie Platt
EPILOGUE
CHAPTER EIGHT
Death: the last chapter 169
Gurmeet S. Kanwal
REFERENCES 191
INDEX 207
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are deeply grateful to the distinguished colleagues who contributed
to this volume. We appreciate their effort, their sacrifce of time,
and their patience with our requirements, reminders, and requests
for revisions. One of us (SA) wishes to thank Drs. Rajnish Mago and
Stephen Schwartz for helpful comments on this project. The other
(GSK) wishes to thank his wife, Bari, for putting up with a preoccupied
husband, and for always being his frst editor. Both of us are thankful to
Jan Wright for her skillful help in preparing the manuscript of this book,
and to Oliver Rathbone and Kate Pearce of Karnac Books for their unerr-
ing support of this project throughout various phases of publication.
Salman Akhtar & Gurmeet S. Kanwal
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