Understanding Grief

Helping Yourself Heal

Alan Wolfelt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135059293
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This classic resource helps guide the bereaved person through the loss of a loved one, and provides an opportunity to learn to live with and work through the personal grief process.

Index

INDEX

A

Agitation 56

Alcohol

relief of grief 93–5

Allergies 56

Anger 59–63

Anniversaries

grief occasions 83–4

help a friend during 185–6

Anxiety 53–5

Appetite

changes in 56

B

Blame 59–63

C

Care of myself 129–34

Changes, physiological 55–9

Cliches, avoiding 184

Compassionate 184

Confusion 49–52

Contact a person in grief 185

Counseling

cost and length 150–1

Counselor

determining suitability for you 144–50

how to find 143–4

Crazy

am I 75–96

Crises

in your life 35–7

Criteria

reconciliation 99–100

Crying 14–5, 88–9

See tears

hysterical 46

Cultural background

own 31–2

D

Death

circumstances surrounding 20–2

God’s will or not 78–9

Denial 45–9

Depression 67–71

Digestion

problems 56

Dimension

grief 45–73

Disbelief 45–9

Disorganization 49–52

Displacement

grief 138

Dreams 90

Drugs

relief of grief 93–5

E

Emotions

explosive 59–63

multitude of 131–2

Emptiness 67–71

Energy

low 55

Expect

what I might 43–73

Experience

funeral 39–41

loss as a context of meaning 119–22

mystical 91–2

ritual 39–41

F

Facilitator

support groups 160

Factors

circumstances surrounding the death 20–2

crises or stresses in your life 35–7

own cultural background 31–2

relationship with the person who died 18–20

ritual or funeral experience 39–41

support system 22–5

unique personality of the person who died 28–30

unique to grief 17–42

your biological sex 38–9

your religious or spiritual background 32–5

your unique personality 25–8

Fear 53–6

Feelings

of guilt 63

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• I The Ability to Love Requiers the Necessity to Mourn
• II Common Myths about Grief and Mourning
• III My Grief is Unique
• IV What Might I Expect?
• V Am I Crazy?
• VI Reconciliation as Healing
• VII How am I Doing?
• VIII Taking Care of Myself
• IX Do I Need Additional Help?
• X Where Can I Get Help?
• XI Healing Guidelines for Support Groups
• XII Helping a Friend in Grief
• XIII A Final Word
• Index
• About the Author