Grief and Bereavement Books
Handbook of Bereavement: Theory, Research, and Intervention.
A comprehensive review of scientific knowledge on the consequences of losing a loved person through death. The volume brings into focus a wide variety of theoretical approaches that have been... (more)
Traumatic grief: Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
Traumatic grief is an emerging disorder. This is the first book for clinicians that presents and discusses diagnostic criteria and evidence-based treatment for this disorder. 112 pages. (more)
Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief
Many modern theories hold that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, freeing the survivor to develop new relationships. This work, however, argues that proper... (more)
Life, Psychotherapy and Death: The End of Our Exploring
Exploring the subject of death from the point of view of a psychotherapist, this text aims to look at death and what it means, as a method of helping others to come to terms with it. It discusses... (more)
The nature of grief: The evolution and psychology of reactions to loss
A synthesis of material from evolutionary psychology, ethology and experimental psychology on the process of grief. 240 pages. (more)
When a Baby Dies: Psychotherapy for Pregnancy and Newborn Loss
This is the first in-depth exploration of psychotherapy for those who have experienced the loss of a baby during pregnancy or in the first few weeks of life. Irving B. Leon integrates recent work on... (more)
Living Through Loss: A Manual for Those Working with Issues of Terminal Illness and Bereavement
This practical manual trains people to counsel and aid others who are suffering loss and bereavement. It confronts the fear of mortality, promoting self-awareness and self-nurturing in carers, in... (more)
Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families
This book tackles head on the often tabooed subject of death. It distils sophisticated clinical work into simple language, and describes simple techniques for talking to children about dying. The... (more)
The Courage to Grieve: Creative Living, Recovery and Growth Through Grief
Although this book emphasizes the response to bereavement, it aims to help with all kinds of loss and grief, exploring intense and uncomfortable emotions such as sorrow, guilt, loneliness,... (more)
Death and the Family: The Importance of Mourning
First published in 1976, this is a standard text on bereavement. (more)
Storymaking in Bereavement: Dragons Fight in the Meadow
This book is about a specific way of helping people work through their losses, even though such losses may have occurred many years before. It is written for professionals in the health and social... (more)
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician's Guide to Foundations and Applications
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies, thanatology, and interpersonal neuroscience, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how we... (more)
Seasons of Grief: Creative Interventions to Support Bereaved People
The quiet letting go of Autumn, the reflective stillness of Winter, the bright rebirth of Spring, and the flourishing warmth of Summer trace the natural path of grief as it grows and changes to fit... (more)
Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
The stunning new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Many Different Kinds of Love
A Guardian book of 2023
A BBC book of 2023
In our lives, terrible things may happen.... (more)
Third-Wave Cognitive Therapy for the Treatment of Loss and Grief: A Clinician's Guide
This book proposes and explores a novel conceptualisation of the grieving process grounded in evolutionary psychology that integrates cognitive behavioural approaches such as compassion focused... (more)
Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief
Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief introduces clinicians to a wide array of strategies and frameworks for engaging clients throughout the loss experience, particularly when those... (more)
Missing Mummy: A Book About Bereavement
Written and illustrated by the talented and award-winning author-illustrator Rebecca Cobb, this extraordinary book deals with the loss of a parent from a child's point of view. Perfectly pitched text... (more)
Personal Grief Rituals: Creating Unique Expressions of Loss and Meaningful Acts of Mourning in Clinical or Private Settings
Personal Grief Rituals presents a new model for how bereaved individuals can create unique expressions of mourning that are tailored to their psychological needs and grounded in memories and emotions... (more)
Coaching and Supervising Through Bereavement: A Practical Guide to Working with Grief and Loss
This book presents a pragmatic guide for coaches and supervisors working with grief and bereavement, providing both useful case studies and practical techniques to aid professionals in embracing the... (more)
You Are Not Alone
Welcome to the club. I'm still here now, all these years later. You don't leave once you've joined; it's a life membership. Grief eases and changes and returns but it never disappears. But you will... (more)
Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Initiating Individuation and Enabling Liberation
This book details a five-phase model of the process of forgiveness and reconciliation, exploring how it can be understood as a threshold experience with the potential to offer profound emotional... (more)
A Grief Companion: Practical support and a guiding hand through the darkness of loss
'This is a book that takes you by the hand and promises the gentlest comfort in the darkest of times.' Tamsin Greig
A Grief Companion offers us practical help to use alongside the theory of... (more)
Languages of Loss: A psychotherapist's journey through grief
'This is the most startlingly honest book about grief I have ever read. Its immediacy hits you on the first page and takes you on an unforgettable journey. No one has set out so clearly the stages we... (more)
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to... (more)
My Mother's Story: Gone Too Soon
Following the success of My Mother's Story: The Originals and North Vancouver, actor and project founder Marilyn Norry, and Registered Therapeutic Counsellor Michelle Hohn, combine their experience... (more)
Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning
In Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning, Gohar Homayounpour plays a theme and variations on loss, love, and family against the backdrop of Iran’s chaotic recent past.
Homayounpour is... (more)
Letters From the Grief Club: How We Live with Loss
Welcome to the club you never wanted to join.
When someone you love dies, it may seem impossible to know what will happen next and how you will cope. Losing someone in early adulthood, you may... (more)
Crying in H Mart
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing... (more)
Silo's Sadness
Silo the lion cub has lost his grandfather due to the illness on the Savanna, El the wise elephant helps Silo explore and manage his grief. (more)