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The Price of Love: The selected works of Colin Murray Parkes
Colin Murray Parkes
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Paperback. Series: World Library of Mental Health. Num Pages: 252 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JKSN2; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes, one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss, has produced a body of work which can be considered truly ground-breaking. His early studies involved working alongside John Bowlby in the development of attachment theory and led to his pioneering work on the Harvard Bereavement Project in the USA and at the new St Christopher's Hospice in Britain. Parkes focussed on two psychological processes, grief, which is the painful search for a lost person or object of attachment, and transition, which is the ... Read more
In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes, one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss, has produced a body of work which can be considered truly ground-breaking. His early studies involved working alongside John Bowlby in the development of attachment theory and led to his pioneering work on the Harvard Bereavement Project in the USA and at the new St Christopher's Hospice in Britain. Parkes focussed on two psychological processes, grief, which is the painful search for a lost person or object of attachment, and transition, which is the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
New
Series
World Library of Mental Health
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138026100
SKU
V9781138026100
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Ref
99-1
About Colin Murray Parkes
Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych, DL, is a psychiatrist, researcher and clinician who has pioneered development of psychological support for families facing the death of a family member. His recent work has focussed on traumatic bereavements with special reference to violent deaths, armed conflict and the cycle of violence. He is the author and editor of six previous books, ... Read more
Reviews for The Price of Love: The selected works of Colin Murray Parkes
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. ... Read more