It is a myth that grief will pass if you do your grief work. It is also a myth that grief will pass if you talk about it. Grief takes the time, grief takes. Grief honors the loss and shows us what the loss meant. This book tells us about accepting grief in life and that no treatment can make it go away. This handbook presents modern theories and research about loss and grief. It also gives an overview of how professionals can use new knowledge to support grieving persons. This 2. Edition is updated in terms of research and knowledge. This book gives you a comprehensive insight into our knowledge about grief.

What is grief? What does grief look like in a person? What do grief processes look like? Can you get mentally ill from grief? Does grief pass – or do you have to live with it? And how do you get help when grieving? When do you need grief therapy? How can family and friends help Kort & Godt om Sorg is a book for you when you are grieving. Maybe you have lost a beloved person. Or maybe circumstances in life mean that you experience loss or aspects that you cannot achieve inspite of your dreams. This book is about the grief that follows.

Grief therapy does not remove your grief. The therapist helps you meet your grief in a way that grief can become a life force. The good therapist has to both help be in contact with the painful feelings of grief but at the same time challenge the understanding of them. This book sets up a framework for modern grief therapy, it explains what grief is and how to alleviate it through therapy. It gives concrete suggestions for evidence-based methods to work with the many different aspects of grief.

This is a book in Aarhus University Press’ popular series on Tænkepauser (Food for thought).

That time that grief, we say. But that time always comes. Grief is a fact of life for all of us. One day we will lose the persons we love, and they will lose us. Although grief is not just something we experience, when a person dies. We also come into contact with it in many other losses in life, from divorce to serious illness etc. According to Mai-Britt Guldin, grief researcher at Aarhus University, we don’t have to grief in anticipation. Instead we have to be couragous and let grief take it’s right place when it shows up in our life. The pain of grief can be transformed to the joy of memories and even teach u show to live better.

This anthology gives an multi-disciplinary view into the changes in culture of grief in Denmark in the latest decades. It presents changes to professional practice, research approaches, and also the way we view grief, experience it, and practice it in our culture in every-day life. The book sums up current knowledge about grief in Denmark in cultural and academic practice. It presents the work of researchers, professionals, and even grieving persons important messages. This book is written for professionals and students and contains important presentations from psychologists, nurses, doctors, chaplains, sociologists, and grieving persons.

Life makes you wiser. But death can also teach us about life. If you have the courage to let grief become a natural follower in your life. 15 remarkable Danes tell about how their meeting with death made them wiser – not only in their own lives but also about self and others. In this book, you meet persons who met death and it catapulted their lives into an unexpected trajectory full of pain but also creative power. You also meet experts who meet death every day in their professional lives and the describe how the presence of death forces them to think about life with deep gratitude.

This book is about the question how Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274) in this theology reflected on the relation between life on earth and ‘Life’ after death. Because ‘life’ is a keyword in Aquinas’ theology, the book discusses all relevant parts of Aquinas’ works to develop a nuanced picture of this central concept. According to Aquinas, human life is seen as a process of development, in which we are invited to gradually share in God’s eternal life. In ‘life’ after death, human existence is redefined and recreated from the perspective of every human being’s personal relationship with God during life on earth. So, both life on earth and ‘Life’ after death can be seen as two ways of living with God.

Contributing to the existential dimension of palliative care, his book develops a contemporary art of dying, inspired on a medieval tradition. The modern art of dying is based on universal human polarities that define our existence and relate to identity, human action, relationships, life review and spirituality. The book is written for patients, family, and caregivers. Central to the contemporary art of dying is the metaphor of inner space that enables people to develop inner freedom in the last phase of their life.

Based on lectures on the book ‘Ruimte om te sterven’, this book on the existential dimension of palliative care is a further development of the contemporary art of dying. The book offers reflections on paradoxes in modern dying, spirituality, a case study, ways of developing inner space, ethics, and reflections on dying and grief. Again, the metaphor of inner space plays a central role.

Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confronted with life-threatening or incurable diseases. This book offers a simple framework for interpreting existential questions with patients and helping them to cope in end-of-life situations, with illustrative examples from practice.

Building on the medieval Ars moriendi tradition, the author introduces a contemporary art of dying model. It shows how to discuss existential questions in a post-Christian context, without moralising death or telling people how they should feel. Written in a straightforward manner, this is a helpful resource for chaplains and clergy, and those with no formal spiritual training, including counsellors, doctors, nurses, allied healthcare workers and other professionals who come into contact with patients in hospitals and hospices.

Este libro está dirigido a tres grupos de personas: aquellas que se encargan del cuidado de familiares o pacientes que están en la etapa final de sus vidas; a los médicos, enfermeras y demás profesionales de la salud que trabajan en cuidados paliativos; y, por supuesto, a aquellas personas que se enfrentan a una enfermedad grave o potencialmente mortal. En estas páginas, el lector encontrará un modelo de interpretación del fenómeno llamado en la antigüedad ars moriendi, que el autor ha conseguido poner al día y darle un efecto práctico para confrontar esta realidad terrible, pero inminente. El concepto nombrado ahora como espacio interior, que recobra la validez de la tradición medieval, y por sus efectos tan positivos, ha sido utilizado en distintas instituciones médicas, tanto en prácticas de cuidado como con fines formativos. También ha sido objeto de numerosas investigaciones científicas. Arte de vivir, arte de morir es, en definitiva, una propuesta que trascenderá a nuestro tiempo para asumir el destino sin fatalidad y de una manera natural, de la misma forma que lo es la experiencia de vivir.

Menschen brauchen andere Menschen, um erfüllt leben und gut sterben zu können. Und wir brauchen eine besondere innere Haltung, die es ermöglicht, vielstimmige Gedanken, Emotionen und Stimmen in uns wahrnehmen zu können. Carlo Leget nennt sie: den »inneren Raum«. Basierend auf den Erkenntnissen der modernen Palliativversorgung und inspiriert von der mittelalterlichen Ars moriendi, die Kunst des Sterbens, bietet der »innere Raum« eine Orientierung für die Auseinandersetzung mit Leben, Sterben und Tod in unserer hochtechnisierten und komplexen Kultur. Wer bin ich und was will ich wirklich? Wie gehe ich mit Leiden um? Wie verabschiede ich mich? Wie schaue ich auf mein Leben zurück? Worauf kann ich hoffen? Anhand dieser fünf existenziellen Fragen nimmt Carlo Leget seine Leser*innen mit auf eine spannende Gedankenreise, deren Ziel nicht nur ein guter Tod, sondern auch ein erfülltes Leben ist. Anregend für alle, die sich persönlich mit den Fragen des Lebensendes auseinandersetzen, und hilfreich für jene, die Sterbende begleiten.

This book is about meaning in health care and welfare. Written for the education of nurses and social workers, the book is built around the ‘diamond model’ for existential conversations, developed in the book ‘Ruimte om te sterven’. Five different fields of care are covered (neurology, care for addicts, clinical genetics, childcare, palliative care), showing how the model can be used. Each chapter presents a case study with tools for conversation and development of support in existential questions.