When Cody Delistraty lost his mother to cancer, he found himself unsure how to move forward. So begins a journey into the new frontiers of grief. From the neuroscience of memory deletion to book prescriptions, laughter therapy, psilocybin, and Breakup Bootcamp, what ultimately emerges is not so much a cure as a fresh understanding of what living with grief truly means. As Delistraty followed the blueprint of his own ad hoc treatment plan, the question of whether the most painful kind of grief can and should be cured had also been taken up by the American Psychiatry Association, as they recently gave extended, intense, disruptive grief an official name: Prolonged Grief Disorder. Stamping this kind of grief with a diagnosis has opened innovative avenues of treatment and an important conversation about a debilitating form of grief, but it also raises the question of whether grief, no matter how severe, is best treated medically at all?
- Publisher: Harper US
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Publication date:
25/06/2024
- ISBN: 9780063256842
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Page extent:
208
- Format: Hardback
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Dimensions:
211 mm x 140 mm
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