Mourning package

In the fields of death education, research and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant. Dr. Worden presents the highly anticipated fourth edition to Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, the gold standard of grief therapy handbooks. The previous editions, translated into 12 languages, received worldwide acclaim for their sensitive, insightful, and practical approach to grief counseling. In this updated and revised fourth edition, Dr. Worden presents his most recent thinking on bereavement drawn from extensive research, clinical work, and the best of the new literature.

The experience of mourning, for all its individuality, is a common human experience. All people experience the grief of loss in some way, and these experiences, no matter how different, are not strange or heterogeneous. Much has been said and written about mourning, and at a time when pandemic restraints have taken away the possibility of mass mourning rites and ceremonies, perhaps a way can be found between these sayings and writings to heal individual experiences of grief and loss. This book is the result of such an effort; Trying to bridge the gap between the individual experience of grief and the more general experience of human grief, and to cross the fence of grief with the help of literature.

The day after his mother’s death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. For nearly two years, the legendary French theorist wrote about a solitude new to him; about the ebb and flow of sadness; about the slow pace of mourning, and life reclaimed through writing. Named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by The New York Times and one of the Best Books of 2010 by Slate and The Times Literary Supplement, Mourning Diary is a major discovery in Roland Barthes’s work: a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his life, as well as a unique study of grief―intimate, deeply moving, and universal.