Pauline Boss

The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change

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How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?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. Y… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-324-01682-3
EAN: 9781324016823
Produktnummer: 36206604
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Pauline Boss, PhD, is emeritus professor at University of Minnesota. She is known worldwide for developing the theory of ambiguous loss and as a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of family stress management. Dr. Boss is the author of Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss and The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.