From Child to Elder
Subtitle: Personal Transformation in Becoming an Orphan at Midlife (American University Studies Series VIII, Psychology)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: August 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780820479415
Subjects: Death, Grief, Bereavement; Death & Dying; Psychology of Religion; Spiritual; Social Science; Adult children; Bereavement; Death; Parents; Psychological aspects; Psychology; Sociology
Description: "From Child to Elder explores the personal growth that can arise when a middle-aged adult loses his or her last living parent. Based on an empirical phenomenological study, this book details the complex ways in which the adult orphan's ongoing relationship to the deceased parents, combined with the unique meanings of the loss, leads to a deepening of individual autonomy and spiritual awakening."--Jacket.