Singing Mother Home
Subtitle: A Psychologist's Journey Through Anticipatory Grief
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781574411621
Subjects: Biography: general; Coping with death & bereavement; Coping with stress; Psychology; Medical; Mothers; General; Death / Grief / Consolation; Parenting - Parent & Adult Child; Death, Grief, Bereavement; Bereavement; Grief; Loss (Psychology); Psychological aspects
First sentence: When I was in elementary school, we lived in a small Texas town without a Presbyterian church so we attended the Methodist.
Description: What happens when an expert on grief is faced with the slow decline of her beloved mother? Like A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, Singing Mother Home offers an inside look at the struggles of an "expert" in coping with loss. Donna S. Davenport was forced to rethink the traditional academic approach to the process, which implied that the goal of grief resolution was to end the attachment to the loved one. Instead, she embarked on a personal exploration of her own anticipatory grief. This intimate narrative forms the core of her book. It is emotionally wrenching, but it also provides hope for those going through similar experiences. Just as Davenport used her family's tradition of singing to comfort her mother, readers will be encouraged to find their own sources of comfort in family and legacy. The book concludes by describing psychological approaches to grief and recommending further reading.