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Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them
Sarah Brabant
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Death, Value and Meaning Series, John D. Morgan, Series Editor
IN PRAISE OF
"In Mending the Torn Fabric, Dr. Brabant demonstrates an understanding
of the grief process with all its complexities. Nothing is missed. The
content is comprehensive and would be helpful to anyone coping with loss
or assisting someone in grief."
—Paul Alexander, CSW, CHT
"Dr. Brabant has developed a delightful way to address bereavement issues
by focusing on the torn fabrics of our life. She helps us find appropriate
and useful needles and threads to mend our grievous wounds. Through the
use of short vignettes and understandable language, Dr. Brabant weaves
her considerable experience in working with grieving people into the fabric
of this book—helping us to stamp out guilt and shame along the way."
—Robert L.
Wrenn, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona
"Professionally competent in its theoretical framework yet simple enough
for the lay person, Dr. Brabant has written a compassionate accounting
of one of the most basic issues in life, the grieving process. The book
is a testimony to a lifetime rich in teaching, caring, learning and practicing
her craft."
—Julia Mayo, Ph.D., Chief Clinical Studies Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry, Saint Vincents Hospital and Medical Center
"In this creative and insightful book, Dr. Sarah Brabant has chosen
the power of analogy to help make mourning an understandable and healing
process. Using fabric as the basis, and mending as the process of self-understanding,
the author weaves together the tasks of mourning with cultural factors,
personal history, past losses, and current life situations."
—Elizabeth J. Clark, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Albany
Medical College
President, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
ABOUT THE BOOK
The analogy of the torn fabric was first used by
the author in response to a bereaved mother's cry: "I know what grief feels
like; I don't know what it looks like." In Mending the Torn Fabric:
For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them, the author expands
the metaphor to include earlier and future or potential losses as well
as losses associated with the death that may be unrecognized or minimized.
This book includes chapters that examine complications that may be present
or may arise, suggestions for mending even the most torn fabric, and a
chapter dedicated to friends who want to help. Stories bereaved persons
have shared with the author through the years are interspersed throughout
the book to provide examples of loss and mending.
In developing the analogy, the book provides a map
of the grieving process that is readily comprehended and that can be revisited
time and time again—both in part and as an entire entity. Although
the analogy itself is simple and easy to understand, it is firmly grounded
in theory, consistent with recognized and accepted suppositions about grief,
and congruent with desired therapeutic goals.
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