Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd Edition
Edited by Froma Walsh and Monica McGoldrick
Praise:
"This is an important book. Major parts of it are a 'must read' for anyone interested in families dealing with dying and death.”
- Omega / Journal of Death and Dying
Overview:
Walsh and McGoldrick have fully revised and expanded this landmark work on the impact of death on the family system. The editors' clinical framework identifies variables that heighten risk for individual, couple, or family dysfunction and describes key processes that foster healing and growth. Chapters by leading authorities reveal how the family response to loss affects all members and their relationships across the life cycle and the generations. New chapters address such topics as spirituality, gender issues, suicide and other traumatic deaths, unacknowledged and stigmatized losses, and resilience-based approaches to family and community recovery from major disaster. In a completely new section, prominent family therapists offer poignant reflections on their own legacies of loss.
Throughout Living Beyond Loss, Second Edition, readers will find valuable therapeutic guidelines for working with threatened loss and end-of-life dilemmas, the immediate aftermath of traumatic loss, and long-term complications. Case illustrations address a wide range of loss situations, show their ripple effects, and suggest ways to address hidden losses when other symptoms are presented. Therapists and counselors will find their own lives and practices deeply enriched by this new volume.
"This moving and helpful volume addresses the profound impact of death, mourning, and broken dreams on current relationships, reminding us of the very humanity of life's journey and how we can help people to stay connected as they make it. The chapters in Living Beyond Loss make it clear that a therapist's respect for our common mortality, for the impact of every loss on remaining ties, will help people to avoid the construction of walls that ward off the intimacy we all so desperately need. An increased awareness of the inevitability of loss, the terror of being left alone, and the flowing relationship impact of such events and feelings over the lifespan-all of these elements form the basis of effective practice. This book will be an important contribution to the skills of therapists and to the field."
- Carol M Anderson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh , and coauthor of Understanding Diverse Families and Flying Solo: Single Women in Midlife.
About the Authors
- Froma Walsh, M.S.W, Ph.D., is Professor, School of Social Service Administration and Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, and Co-Director of the University-affiliated institute, the Chicago Center for Family Health. Her other books include Strengthening Family Resilience; Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy; and Normal Family Processes (3rd Edition).
- Monica McGoldrick,, M.A., M.S.W., is Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, New Jersey, and adjunct faculty at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her other books include Ethnicity and Family Therapy (3rd Edition), Genograms: Assessment and Intervention (2nd Edition), and The Expanded Family Life Cycle (3rd Edition).
ISBN: 0-393-70438-6
Spring 2004
462 pages, paperback
