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The Myth of Closure
- Author
- Pauline Boss
- Narrator
- Elisabeth Rodgers
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 22 March 2022
- Run Time
- 3 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this audiobook, 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, and 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.
Critics Review
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“Boss offers us lessons in dealing with ambiguous loss.”
Mary Pipher, PhD, New York Times bestselling author
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“Her work is a tour de force that unites her earlier writings on loss, trauma, and resilience, and it is a hopeful message to all of us who struggle to make sense of today’s world.”
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, author of When We Die
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“From her own professional and personal experience, Boss offers us lessons in dealing with ambiguous loss. She writes beautifully and with great emotion as she tackles one of our most difficult challenges—how to grow through pain and suffering. Boss is a cultural therapist whose work helps us understand ourselves and each other.”
Mary Pipher, psychologist and author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia
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“Of all the books and articles that Pauline Boss has written devoted to her pioneering work on ambiguous loss, this publication may be her finest. The book is timely and exactly what so many of us desperately need as we try to comprehend, adjust to, and gradually bounce back from the devastating losses that so many of us have experienced as we live amid a global pandemic. I am convinced that this book will provide a much-needed compass to those who feel directionless following the loss of loved ones during the pandemic, and for whom ‘proper closure’ was not humanly possible due to COVID-related constraints. One of the most refreshing and welcomed features of this masterfully written book centers around Boss’s expansion of her previous groundbreaking work on ambiguous loss to include a critical examination of global issues such as climate change and racism. If there were ever a time where a book with such a sharp focus was needed, one that speaks honestly, authoritatively, and eloquently to where we are as a nation and a world, it is now.”
Kenneth V. Hardy, Ph.D., Clinical and Organizational Consultant, The Eikenberg Institute for Relationships, New York, New York
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“[Her] work helps us understand ourselves and each other.”
Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia
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“An inspired and much-needed framework for living through the pandemic…[A] beautiful melding of Boss’s eighty-plus years of personal experience with life and loss with her forty-plus years of professional work as a family therapist, professor, clinician, and grief expert.”
Coalition News
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“A tour de force…A hopeful message to all of us who struggle to make sense of today’s world.”
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, author of When We Die
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“An inspired and much-needed framework for living through the pandemic.”
Coalition News
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Details
- Author
- Pauline Boss
- Narrator
- Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duration
- 3 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 March 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200862276
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Abnormal psychology, Trauma and shock, Psychology: emotions
Synopsis
How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this audiobook, 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, and 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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