Love and Loss: The Roots of Grief and its Complications

This book illuminates the structure and focus of thinking about love and loss, and sheds light on a wide range of psychological issues. It will be essential for bereavement professionals as well as students of psychology, psychiatry, and sociology.

Author: Colin Murray Parkes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780415477185

About the Author

Colin Murray Parkes is a psychiatrist, researcher and author. He has contributed to and edited numerous books and articles on the nature of human attachments and loss. His Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life first published in 1972 and now in its third edition, remains a classic. He has been a Consultant psychiatrist at St Christopher's Hospice since 1966, and is Life President of Cruse Bereavement Care. In 1996 he was awarded an OBE for services to bereaved people.