Chronic Sorrow: A Living Loss (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)
"Susan Roos has written a comprehensive and important book regarding the little understood phenomenon of chronic sorrow. She has compiled reams of research and her own observations as a therapist into a detailed, analytical, pioneering work. Her experiences as a mother of two developmentally disabled daughters, one who died at the age of 3, seem to be the foundation and the cement for this work. Roos has crafted a volume that needs to be read by clinicians and medical professionals. ppIt is my hope that the author has plans to write another book geared specifically toward parents and caretakers experiencing other-loss. This book is appropriate for professionals...Undoubtedly, further research will be spurred by Roos's important addition to the field of grief and the concept of chronic sorrow. She has made an immense contribution to those experiencing self-loss and other loss, from which many will benefit." -- Debra Thompson, Death Studies, April 2003