The Weeping Willow

Riveting in their emotional clarity and utterly jargon free these 30 stories from real life penetrate how we grieve and how we can help those who grieve- whether the griever is oneself someone we care about or a client or patient. Lynne Dale Halamish an internationally respected grief counsellor with more than 20 years'' experience and Doron Hermoni a family physician researcher and educator present vignettes from practice that show how death- lingering unexpected violent or self-inflicted- and the loss of a relationship- to oneself or with a child sibling parent mate grandparent or friend- give life to grief together with the process by which each person fully encounters his or her grief. Each story is no more than two or three pages and the authors follow each one with a short summary of its teachings and a selection of annotated recent references for those who wish to read more about a topic. Looked at in relief the stories reveal a master grief counsellor at work.