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Other Side Of Sadness: What The New Science Of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss (2009)

by George A. Bonanno(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1282308947 (ISBN13: 9781282308947)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Basic Books (AZ)

review 1: I've labeled it as "must-read", although it's not an Earth-shattering book. This is more of a common sense, to dispel some of the crap that can be found in the rest of the literature on grief and bereavement.The basic facts are that most of the people are actually resilient to grief and get better on their own, and interventions close to the problematic event can actually be worse for them. Also, the tried usual techniques for handling prolonged grief work, and there's no need for the 5-stages-of-grief stuff (which mostly applies to people that are dying, not to the ones that remain).Read this, even if nothing bad has happened to you. It isn't a self-help book, it just makes some stuff clear.(The chapter on China is somewhat boring, and I think most of it can be skipped an... mored replaced with "Rituals help")
review 2: A strange book. Part statistical, part biographical, part polite and overall unbiased reconnaissance of spiritual beliefs, part tourist guide. An interesting reading to give yourself a paradigm on how we deal with death, it says what people do, how it can go wrong and mostly how the people that handle it better manage to do so. It's not a self help book, and as the author says you should probably avoid this and any other book on dealing with death up to 4-6 months from a traumatic event, but it's easy to compare it to your own experience.Some parts are slow, but i liked how describing Hiroshima and the author's personal story about the loss of his father made things more interesting.The author uses real life examples from people he interviewed and at some point it can be confusing telling who was who but you'll appreciate how later on he makes an effort to give a brief description with the names so it's easier to recall their back story. less

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