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Love and Loss: The Roots of Grief and Its Complications

Author(s) : Colin Murray Parkes

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Illuminating the structure and focus of thinking about love and loss, this book sheds light on a wide range of psychological issues. It will be essential reading for professionals working with bereavement, as well as graduate students of psychology, psychiatry, and sociology.

Contents:
Introduction Part 1: Attachment and Loss Review I: Attachment and Love Review II: Loss and Change The Research Project Part 2: Patterns of Attachment and Patterns of Grief Secure and Insecure Attachments Anxious/Ambivalent Attachments Avoidant Attachments Disorganised Attachments. Conclusions from Part 2 Part 3: Other Influences on Attachment and Loss Separation Trauma and Bereavement Gender Loss of a Parent in Adult Life Loss of a Child Loss of a Spouse or Partner Social Isolation and Support Other Influences Conclusions from Part 3 Part IV: Disorders of Attachment, Other Psychiatric Problems and their Prevention and Treatment Attachments in Non-bereaved Psychiatric Patients Disorders of Attachment Therapies and Outcome Final Conclusions

Author Biography:
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.