The Afterlife Connection: A Therapist Reveals How to Communicate with Departed Loved Ones - Softcover

Greer, Dr. Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312306539 ISBN 13: 9780312306533

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

Synopsis

Dr. Jane Greer, a classically trained therapist, began with the belief that the bond that exists between the living and the dead is not purely a psychological one, but is, in fact, much more dynamic and empowering. In the shattering aftermath of her own mother's death, Dr. Greer learned---and shows us as well---that transcommunication is not simply a "hello from heaven" but a powerful therapeutic tool that is available to any of us. Through this communication, the pain of grieving can be made more bearable, ambivalent relationships can be healed, and a loved one's messages can bring relief and joy.

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About the Author

Dr. Jane Greer is the author of Gridlock, How Could You Do This to Me: Learning to Trust After Betrayal, and Adult Sibling Rivalry. She writes an advice column for Redbook Online and is a long-standing member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

From Publishers Weekly

According to this comforting New Age primer, death can be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Indeed, it seems to open up lines of "transcommunication" as never before, Greer says, and messages from beyond the grave come in a multitude of formats, including dreams, friendly animals, rainbows and electrical disturbances. She offers examples, too, of departed loved ones taking a more active role-by counseling the living on life projects, helping them find apartments, even fixing them up with Mr. Right. Greer, a Redbook online sex columnist and author of Gridlock: Finding Courage to Move On in Life, Love and Work, describes herself as a "psychoanalytically trained" therapist, but departs from Freudian orthodoxy by collaborating with a psychic and urging her patients to directly contact their deceased relatives as an integral part of the therapeutic process. Her material is drawn mostly from their case studies, and from her experience with her own late mother, a particularly voluble spirit who manifests herself in the form of rabbits, doves, butterflies, toppled family photos, stopped clocks, malfunctioning radios and serendipitous encounters with the song "La Vie en Rose." Greer offers some practical tips on communicating with the dead to enable readers to bypass mediums and seances; candles and meditation exercises help, but a simple blurted entreaty ("Hi, Mom...Please let me know you're here") often does the trick. She takes a stab at rationalizing everything by reference to relativity, quantum physics, thermodynamics and paranormal research, but grieving survivors may be happy to take it all on faith.
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Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312306539
• ISBN 13: 9780312306533
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272