Loss and Change

Marris, Peter

ISBN 10: 0415098629 / ISBN 13: 9780415098625

Published by Routledge, 1986

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002076140

Synopsis:

Peter Marris shows how understanding grief can help us to understand processes of change, both personal and social, and to handle them with more compassion for ourselves and others. He sees grieving as the working out of a psychological reintegration, whose principles are essentially similar whether 'the structures of meaning' of our life fall apart from the loss of a personal relationship, of a predictable social context or of an interpretable world. Marris draws on his wide-ranging research to develop his argument. A study of widows, a description of the devastating effects of urban renewal projects on people whose familiar neighbourhoods are destroyed, an analysis of the activities of tribal associations in Nigeria, and reflections on the analogies between scientific and political revolutions are a few of the studies Marris weaves together in tracing the meaning of change and loss in human life. This book is now reissued with a long introduction by the author, which develops the analysis in the light of recent theory and relates it to work done in the field since its first publication.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Loss and Change
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 2nd Edition