Sweet Sorrow: Love, Loss and Attachment In Human Life
"Readers passionate about social and psychological aspects of health and disease, working with marginalized or disadvantaged communities or engaged in mental health practice will enjoy this book. It would also be invaluable to psychiatry residents and other professional trainees interested in mentalhealth and illness and community health. That said, it is also an excellent and accessible introduction to attachment theory for readers curious about their own attachments to others."”Gathering inspiration and insights from artists, philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychoanalysts, Alan Eppel has enriched and deepened our understanding of love and loss of love in a most engaging way. Dr. Eppel has crafted an intellectual delight.”“This stimulating book weaves together coherently many different strands to illuminate one of the most fundamental of human themes in an original way. Material from clinical psychiatry and psychoanalysis, literature, art, music, biology and neuroscience is presented clearly, without the obscure language such subjects may provoke, and discussed in the context of a set of eleven core propositions. The book will be accessible and interesting to a wide readership both within and outside the above disciplines, bringing together otherwise scattered information as well as provocative ideas. In addition, case vignettes add meaning on a more personal level.”