pororoca_surfer OP t1_iv33lw0 wrote
Reply to comment by black_kyanite in How accurate are the "5 stages of grief" to model behavior during the loss of an important person? by pororoca_surfer
Thank you for the reference and the comment, I will look into that.
A lot of comments here, albeit valuable and interesting, are leaning towards personal experience. Which is valid and I shouldn't be skeptical just because. But it is nice, at least in this sub, to have some fundamental to look into. Thanks!
black_kyanite t1_iv34w6s wrote
You're most welcome. Irvin Yalom, a psychiatrist in California, has also written extensively on death, dying, and other existential concerns in many of his books. His nonfiction is best. I liked Creatures of a Day. He also co-wrote A Matter of Death and Life with his wife Marilyn while she was dying of cancer. It blends his personal and professional experience with grief and loss. Psychology is a pretty soft, pretty new, pretty inexact science, but he's a tenured Stanford professor, so it's pretty safe to say he knows what's up. I'd recommend it if you want a book that has less of a clinical/textbook vibe than J.W. Worden's.
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