Sorrow: A Therapist's Reflection on the Inevitable and the Unknowable

Family Process

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 440-455

  Weingarten, Kaethe ^a,b  

^a CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b The Witnessing Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic Illness; Chronic Sorrow; Pain; Self loss; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; LITERATURE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84870910331     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01412.x     Document Type: Article

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