عنوان

Understanding grief :

(Number (ISBN

0687428548

(Number (ISBN

9780687428540

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b794701

Title Proper

Understanding grief :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

its roots, dynamics, and treatment /

First Statement of Responsibility

Edgar N. Jackson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Abingdon Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[1957]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

255 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.

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1. The definition of grief : The prevalence of grief reactions ; Difficulties in defining grief ; Toward a working definition of grief ; The relation of the clinical and the creative ; The plan of this study -- 2. The dynamics of the grief situation : The dynamic quality of grief ; Four specific factors of dynamic importance ; Expression of grief feelings ; Dynamic comprehension of death's significance ; Basis for an ego concept ; Discipline and deprivation in relation to reality ; Age factors that modify ego response ; Summary -- 3. The roots and development of grief in man and society : The conditioning of grief response by group influence ; Levels of grief communication and expression ; Primitive methods of dealing with self-consciousness and grief ; Modern counterparts of the primitive methods ; Beyond magical thinking to a clear reality sense ; The symptoms of destructive repression ; Building more healthful attitudes toward grief -- 4. Grief and identification : The injured psyche and the incorporated object ; Normal identification and techniques of identity ; Special significance of identification among women ; Identification and the personality structure ; Temporary identification and prolonged manifestations ; Sensitivity to emotional response -- 5. Grief and substitution : The injured psyche and substitution ; Two directions substitution may take ; Mixed motives in substitution ; Three cases of substitution ; Substitution and a weakened reality sense ; Unwise emotional transfers.

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11. Resolving abnormal grief situations : The nature of abnormal grief ; How abnormal grief is manifest ; Illustrations of abnormal grief ; The clinical picture of abnormal grief ; Dynamic factors in abnormal grief ; Methods of treatment ; The pastor's role in abnormal grief ; The minister's abnormal reactions ; Diagnosis: professional and practical -- 12. When grief precipitates deep disturbance : Definition of deep disturbance ; Illustrations of deep disturbance ; Prevalence of deep disturbance ; The pastor's role with the deeply disturbed ; Cases of pastoral success and failure: a manic state: depression: the poorly oriented and self-destructive: aggression ; The pastor and referrals -- 13. Preparing people for grief situations : Childhood conditioning ; Education in the church ; Preparation through pastoral counseling ; Pastoral self-examination ; Informal group support ; Bibliotherapy: assets and liabilities ; A pulpit ministry to the bereaved -- 14. Special opportunities in grief situations : Relations with official persons in the community ; Procedures in dealing with strangers ; The problem of religious opposition ; Using the universals in grief ; The funeral sermon ; The funeral and the bereaved ; Nine criteria for evaluating a funeral -- 15. Resources for facing new horizons : Courageous meaning or courageous meaninglessness ; The counselor's role in restoring persons to useful living ; The importance of being related ; Cultivating a capacity to communicate creatively ; The place of active participation in personality reorientation ; A sustaining faith to meet life or death.

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6. Grief and guilt : Universal guilt and ambivalence ; Techniques for working through guilt ; Guilt responses illustrated ; Techniques for compensating guilt feelings ; Religious insight into guilt feelings -- 7. How a structure of values conditions the grief response : A structure of values as a creative organization of experience ; A value structure sustains the logical mind ; Inadequate ideas undermine the value structure ; Rational clues to the meaning of life and death ; The possibilities and limitations of a structure of values ; Religious values influence attitudes toward life and death ; A God concept as the basis for relationship ; Seven minimum concepts for a working faith ;Faith to be or not to be -- 8. How religious practices sustain the grief-stricken : The sustaining power of symbolic structures ; New significance for old methods ; Drama and personification ; Religious rites and emotional responses -- 9. Types of grief manifestation : Normal grief reaction ; Abnormal grief reaction ; When grief brings breakdown ; An evaluation of roles in dealing with the grief-stricken -- 10. Resolving normal grief situations : The minister's attitude toward grief ; Symptoms of normal grief ; What grief work accomplishes ; The pastor's role in normal grief situations ; Illustrations of normal grief ; The importance of ritualized expressions ; Three recommendations to pastors ; The place for weeping ; What not to do ; Nine areas of concern ; The pastor's personal role ; The pastor's institutional role ; An evaluation of the pastoral function.

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Title

Understanding grief.

Title

Understanding grief.

Grief.

Pastoral psychology.

Psychotherapy.

Grief.

Pastoral Care.

Psychotherapy.

Bereavement-- Psychological aspects.

Death-- Psychological aspects.

Grief therapy.

Grief.

Grief.

Pastoral psychology.

Psychotherapy.

Verdriet.

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Book number

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Jackson, Edgar N., (Edgar Newman),1910-1994.

Date of Transaction

20201207074922.0

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[Book]

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