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The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
Contributor(s): Boss, Pauline (Author)
ISBN: 1324016817     ISBN-13: 9781324016816
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $19.76  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd)
- Psychology | Clinical Psychology
- Self-help | Death, Grief, Bereavement
Dewey: 155.93
LCCN: 2021014693
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives.

With a loss of trust in the world as a safe place, a loss of certainty about health care, education, employment, lingering anxieties plague many of us, even as parts of the world are opening back up again. Yet after so much loss, our search must be for a sense of meaning, and not something as elusive and impossible as closure.

This book provides many strategies for coping: encouraging us to increase our tolerance of ambiguity and acknowledging our resilience as we express a normal grief, and still look to the future with hope and possibility.