The price of love : the selected works of Colin Murray Parkes /

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Author / Creator:	Parkes, Colin Murray, author.
Uniform title:	Works. Selections
Imprint:	Hove, East Sussex ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Description:	xi, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	World library of mental health series World library of mental health series.
Subject:	Bereavement. Grief therapy. Loss (Psychology) Bereavement. Grief therapy. Loss (Psychology)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10086349

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ISBN:	9780415662710 (hardback) 0415662710 (hardback) 9781315761466 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes, one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss, has produced a body of work which can be considered truly ground-breaking. His early studies involved working alongside John Bowlby in the development of attachment theory and led to his pioneering work on the Harvard Bereavement Project in the USA and at the new St Christopher's Hospice in Britain. Parkes focussed on two psychological processes, grief, which is the painful search for a lost person or object of attachment, and transition, which is the process of changing the assumptive world in ways that ensure that nothing worthwhile need be completely lost. Out of the struggle to resolve the conflict between holding on and letting go of the old assumptions there gradually emerges a new and more mature model of the world. These ideas throw light on a wide range of life change events and have proved useful to people faced with bereavement, physical disabilities, dying, disasters and even terrorist attacks. In recent years he has supported humanitarian efforts in countries including Rwanda, India and Japan. Parkes' career has spanned several decades and touched countless lives. In The Price of Love, Parkes presents papers which span the full extent of his career, covering and linking together our understanding of the five major areas of his work:- Love and grief;- Crisis, trauma and transition;- Death and dying;- Disasters;- War and terrorism: breaking the cycle.The papers included here have been carefully selected and annotated to show how Parkes' thinking has developed during a career as researcher, practitioner and educator. In each section of the book psychological and social causes are paired with consequences and interventions (both preventive and therapeutic) and explored from Western and cross-cultural perspectives, all with Parke' customary clarity and compassion.This unique collection of papers will prove invaluable to psychologists, psychiatrists, palliative care staff, counsellors and students, as well as those studying international conflict and working with the bereaved"--

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1. Love and Grief
1. Introduction
2. "Seeking" and "Finding" a Lost Object: Evidence from recent studies of the reaction to bereavement
3. Comments on Dennis Klass' Article "Developing a Cross-Cultural Model of Grief"
4. Evaluation of a Bereavement Service
5. Broken Heart: A Statistical Study of Increased Mortality Among Widowers
6. Guidelines for Conducting Ethical Bereavement Research
7. Bereavement: Understanding Grief across Cultures
8. Introduction (pp.1-6) and Conclusions (pp. 272-8) from Love and Loss: The Roots of Grief and its Complications
9. Complicated Grief: The debate over a new DSM-V Diagnostic Category
10. Dangerous Words
Part 2. Crisis, Trauma and Transition
11. Psychiatric Problems following Bereavement by Murder or Manslaughter
12. Psychosocial Transitions: A field for study
13. What Becomes of Redundant World Models?
14. Bereavement Dissected: A re-examination of the basic components influencing the reaction to loss
15. Assumptions about Loss and Principles of Care
16. An Experiment that Failed: Services for Families in Crisis in Tower Hamlets: Perception of a crisis service by referrers and users
Part 3. Death and Dying
17. Attachment and Autonomy at the End of Life
18. Terminal Care: Evaluation of in-patient service at St Christopher's Hospice
Part 4. Disasters
19. Bereavement following Disasters
20. Psychosocial Effects of Disaster: Birth Rate in Aberfan
21. Help the Hospices Tsunami Project: Consultant's Report and Recommendations
Part 5. War and Terrorism - Breaking the Cycle
22. Grief and Reconciliation
23. Genocide in Rwanda: Personal Reflections
24. Reflections on Cruse' Response to 9/11
25. Making and Breaking Cycles of Violence
26. Terrorism
Final Conclusions

The price of love : the selected works of Colin Murray Parkes /

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