Over a period of having lost my first son aged 19, then my wife aged 72 and finally my other son aged 38 I desperately needed help with the grieving process. This book gave me that template for understanding the various levels of grief and how people deal and benefit from good, simple and practical examples. It will serve as template I can reuse when the going gets tough and I need further help. ( )

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> Elisabeth Kübler-Ross et David Kessler. — SUR LE CHAGRIN ET LE DEUIL, éditions JC Lattès. — Ceci est le dernier livre d’Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, écrit avec l’aide de David Kessler. Elle y aborde tous les aspects de l’accompagnement de la fin de vie, mais aussi de la souffrance de l’entourage du défunt (enfants, conjoint, parents, amis) : les fantasmes, les peurs, les pleurs, les remontées du chagrin, mais aussi les aspects financiers… ou sexuels. Quand on perd son conjoint, on perd aussi son partenaire sexuel. Pour certains, c’est la fin de toute sexualité ; d’autres retrouvent du désir, parfois en culpabilisant - l’aide d’un psychothérapeute peut s’avérer utile. Le premier livre d’Elisabeth s’appelait Sur la mort et le mourir (traduit Les Derniers Instants de la vie) : 40 ans après, une oeuvre immense se boucle. À signaler aussi : L’Ultime Voyage où le fameux Stanislav Grof, fondateur de la psychologie transpersonnelle, aborde (aidé par Olivier Chambón, Èva Guerda et Éric Villeroc) la plus redoutable des explorations : bien accompagnée et en état de conscience modifiée (par usage de LSD ou de la respiration holotropique), une personne très malade peut “vivre sa mort”, puis “renaître”, métamorphosant sa vision du monde, se libérant de ses névroses, trouvant la sérénité et allant parfois même jusqu’à guérir, éditions Trédaniel.
—Nouvelles Clés, no. 64, (Déc.-Jan.-Fév. 2009-10), p. 62

The seminal work on grieving. Kubler-Ross invested years of study into how humans handle the process of loss. Mapping out the emotional stages involved in letting go, whether a death, relationship, job or lifestyle, Ross found basic steps to be the same. What was most helpful to me about her findings were that the stages were not linear, and often repeated until a person finally is able to achieve a state of acceptance. ( )

This was just the book I was looking for. Originally I thought it might be a bit too psychological with medical speak but it was very readable and would good examples to back up its points. I also liked how the authors brought their own experiences of grief and how they learned from them. Grief really is individual but reading about how others grief really helped me understand it more as a means to heal and accept death. Although I know I'll always feel pain for Dad's death, this book helped me understand the stages of grief and that each person needs to go through it in their own way. ( )

This was just the book I was looking for. Originally I thought it might be a bit too psychological with medical speak but it was very readable and would good examples to back up its points. I also liked how the authors brought their own experiences of grief and how they learned from them. Grief really is individual but reading about how others grief really helped me understand it more as a means to heal and accept death. Although I know I'll always feel pain for Dad's death, this book helped me understand the stages of grief and that each person needs to go through it in their own way. ( )