Grief and the healing arts : creativity as therapy / edited by Sandra L. Bertman. - x, 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Death, value, and meaning series . - Death, value, and meaning series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grief and the Healing Arts: Introduction -- The Five Stages of Grief -- On the Psychology of Loss -- What the Nurse Likes -- Preventing Harm in the Name of Help: Ensuring Ethical Care Through the Concept of "Preserving Own Integrity" -- Becoming the Patient -- Music - A Companion for the Journey from Mourning to Morning -- Night Nurse -- Comfort Care -- To Know of Suffering and the Teaching of Empathy -- The Body Flute -- Reflections on Suffering -- Hope and Millie -- The Faces of AIDS: An AIDS Quilt -- Seeing Fred on a Respirator -- Using Art Therapy with Pediatric Oncology Patients -- Art Techniques for Children with Cancer -- Puppets: Bridging the Communication Gap Between Caregivers and Children About Death and Dying -- Transformations: Visual Arts and Hospice Care -- Sound and Silence: Music Therapy in Palliative Care -- Songlines -- Movies as Movement: Films as Catharsis in Grief Therapy -- Forum Theatre: A Wake for Dying -- Crisis in the Cafeteria -- The Life and Death of Yusuf Hawkins -- Gravestone Rubbing: Epitaph -- Remembrance Photographs: A Caregiver's Gift for Families of Infants Who Die -- Culture, Creativity and Death -- Visible Words: Ritual in the Pastoral Care of the Sick and Dying -- The Role of the Visual Image in Psychodynamics of Grief Resolution (Viewed Through Jewish Law and Tradition) -- Pathological Grief - A Problem in Search of a Definition: The Tragedy of Hamlet as a Model -- Keeping Emotional Time: Music and the Grief Process -- A Study in Grief: The Life and Art of Kaethe Kollwitz -- Death and Grief Made Visible: The Life and Work of Edvard Munch -- Against Daily Insignificance: Writing Through Grief -- Sculpting Through Grief -- AIDS Time: A Passage Through Cawthra Park -- Social Support "Internetworks," Caskets for Sale, and More: Thanatology and the Information Superhighway -- Healing and the Internet -- Therapeutic Touch: For Those Who Accompany the Dying -- The Nurse and the Art Are One (Meditation on the Vietnam Women's Memorial, 1994) -- Hello, David -- My Mother's Hands -- The Sourdough Father -- The M(ortality) Word and the L(ove) Word -- Dear Edith -- Silent Conversations -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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Grief.
Counseling.
Arts--Therapeutic use
Death--Psychological aspects

BF575.G7 / G726 1999

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