The Myth of Closure
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How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?
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.
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- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One: What Just Happened?
- Chapter 1: Ambiguous Loss
- Chapter 2: The Myth of Closure
- Chapter 3: Racism as Unresolved Loss
- Part Two: Staying Strong and Resilient
- Chapter 4: Resilience: Our Best Hope in the Face of Ambiguous Loss
- Chapter 5: The Paradox of Absence and Presence
- Chapter 6: Both/And Thinking
- Chapter 7: Six Guidelines for the Resilience to Live With Loss
- Chapter 8: If Not Closure, What's Normal Grief?
- Chapter 9: Loss and Change
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Advance Praise
- About the Author
- Copyright
