SAN FRANCISCO (MMD Newswire) January 5, 2011 -- Grieving As Well As Possible: An Insightful Guide to Encourage Grief's Flow, Navigate Difficult Moments and Put Your Life or a Friend's Life Back Together by Mardi Horowitz, M.D., provides a guide for readers who have suffered from a loss, as well as for those loved ones surrounding them through the grieving process. "This work was inspired by the lessons learned in clinical research and working with people under severe stresses, including significant loss," says Horowitz.
Horowitz, whose work led to the delineation of a new diagnosis of Complicated Grief, shares his wealth of knowledge of how the mind works during traumatic loss, especially the emotional meanings that linger in the mind after loss, "and the need to harmonize once again a sense of identity that may feel deeply impacted or even fragmented because of the reality and finality of losing a loved one," he says.
Grieving As Well As Possible outlines the chronological process of coping with loss-from first reaction to the news of death to the many months of rebuilding-all through real-life stories, including Horowitz's in the final chapter, where he discusses his personal experience after the death of his wife.
Grieving As Well As Possible is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author
Mardi Horowitz, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, has also served as a psychiatric consultant to the United States Navy, Army, Department of Justice, National Institute of Mental Health and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Horowitz received awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies. He has published more than 20 books and is currently president of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
MEDIA CONTACT
Mardi Horowitz
Email: mardih@lppi.ucsf.edu
Phone: (415) 476-7612
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