In Widower, a journalist and a behavioral scientist explore and analyze the grief process as men experience it. The book illustrates, through first-hand accounts, some different ways in which men have successfully come to grips with this wrenching loss. The poignantly honest stories offer insight and guidance from the one true authority on widowhood - the man who has survived it - and the authors offer expert analyses of these experiences and point out ways to work through the grieving process.

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Continuing Bonds
New Understandings of Grief
Edited by Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman, and Steven L. Nickman

Continuing Bonds gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant twentieth-century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do.

Twenty-two respected authors demonstrate that the healthy resolution of grief enables one to maintain a continuing bond with the deceased. Despite cultural disapproval and lack of validation by professionals, survivors find places for the dead in their ongoing lives and even in their communities. Such bonds are not denial; the deceased can provide resources for enriched function in the present.

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Living with Dying
A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
Edited by Joan Berzoff and Phyllis R. Silverman

Living with Dying is the first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families. Living with Dying begins with the narratives of five healthcare professionals, who, when faced with overwhelming personal losses altered their clinical practices and philosophies.

The book provides ways to ensure a respectful death for individuals, speaks to families, groups, and communities, and is organized around theoretical issues in loss, grief, and bereavement and around clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups.

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Widow to Widow
How the Bereaved Help Each Other
By Phyllis R. Silverman

Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual help and community support programs. In the second edition of her pioneering text, Phyllis Silverman brings the success of the original widow-to-widow program into the 21st century, preparing a new generation of community leaders, clergy, counselors, hospice staff, social workers, and the widowed themselves to organize and implement mutual-help programs.

Widow to Widow combines practical information and sensitive insight, with moving firsthand accounts of widows and widowers threaded throughout the text. The mutual-help approach offers a fundamental paradigm shift from the treatment of grief to a focus on growth and development through an intimate sharing of wisdom, tears, laughter, and experience. Through a deeper understanding of widow hood and how the bereaved can help one another, this book can empower you to help others, and perhaps yourself, to move through the grieving process with the support of peers.

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