The Price of Love
The selected works of Colin Murray Parkes
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:24th Jul '14
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This collection highlights Colin Murray Parkes' significant contributions to understanding grief and loss. The Price of Love offers valuable insights for professionals and students alike.
In The Price of Love, Colin Murray Parkes presents a comprehensive collection of papers that encapsulate the breadth of his influential career in the field of bereavement and loss. His work is pivotal in linking various aspects of human experience, particularly in understanding grief and the psychological processes that accompany significant life changes. Parkes, who has collaborated with notable figures such as John Bowlby, has made groundbreaking contributions to attachment theory and bereavement studies, particularly through the Harvard Bereavement Project and St Christopher's Hospice.
The book delves into two core psychological processes: grief, defined as the painful search for a lost attachment, and transition, which involves adapting one’s worldview to accommodate loss without losing the essence of what was meaningful. Parkes explains how navigating the tension between holding on to old assumptions and letting them go can lead to a more mature understanding of life. His insights are applicable not only to bereavement but also to a variety of life-altering events, including trauma, disasters, and even acts of war.
The Price of Love is an invaluable resource for professionals in psychology, psychiatry, and palliative care, as well as students and researchers studying the complexities of human emotion in the face of adversity. The carefully selected and annotated papers reflect Parkes' evolving thought process and offer a rich exploration of psychological and social causes, consequences, and interventions, all presented with his characteristic clarity and compassion.
"Useful features include the author's new prefaces to each paper, reflective postscripts, and introductions to each section, setting the work in a wider context and showing how his thinking developed with time."- Roslyn Byfield, Private Practice
"This is a fascinating selection of Colin Murray Parkes’ favourite and most influential articles and chapters. The volume provides unique historical insights into the evolution of what was in the seventies a newly emerging field of study and clinical engagement and underlines Colin Murray Parkes’ pre-eminent role within it."- Professor Dame Barbara Monroe, from the foreword
"Colin Murray Parkes is the undisputed father-figure in the field of bereavement. His contributions to research and care are simply magnificent. This selection of his papers gives a sense of the breadth of his contribution to both the scientific knowledge base and clinical practice across many decades. It makes his work more easily accessible, ensuring that future generations also appreciate his remarkable career and the far-reaching scope of his work." - Margaret Stroebe, Professor of Bereavement and Loss at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
"Here, we get to sample nearly a half century of the pioneering work of Colin Murray Parkes... The Price of Love... is a significant contribution to the field. Most interesting it shows the continued development of Colin Murray Parkes' work... For those unfamiliar with the published work of Parkes, this collection offers a wide itnroduction to his work and to the field of grief studies. For those appreciative of Parkes' long and continuing contribution, these are a compendium of some of his best writings." - Kenneth J. Doka, The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant, Hospice Foundation of America, OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
ISBN: 9780415662710
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 498g
252 pages