Trauern: Phasen und Chancen des psychischen Prozesses

by Verena Kast

In what is often called her most important book, Verena Kast examines the role of mourning in the therapeutic process.

Working as a psychotherapist, Frau Kast has often observed depressive illnesses caused by painful losses, which have not been adequately mourned. Traditionally, mourning has not been a subject of psychologists' attention.

Frau Kast uses dreams to illustrate the stages of mourning and shows systematically how the unconscious stimulates us to encounter our grief. Mourning marks an end but it also fosters personal growth. It is a time of renewal, a time for incubation, for introspection, for going into oneself to gather strength, as a seed goes deep into the earth to find the resources for striving toward the light.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Leila_Chii · Rating 5 out of 5]

Das Buch ist sehr vielschichtig und beläuchtet die Trauer eingehend. Sehr hilfreich wenn man gerade selbst in einem Trauerprozess ist.

[YHC · Rating 2 out of 5]

“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
This book is mostly using dreams to express how we fear the death of our loved ones. I don't deny we are afraid of our own death at some point, but for me, the death of our beloved family or pets are even more torturous.

Learn to accept death is a long process unless you are forced through traumas or big natural disasters, accidents. We take life for granted that we don't realize how thin line death could be so close to life.

I am learning to accept death. Thanks to dreams that I can still hold my passed-away pets tightly in my arms, the feeling is so real that it comforts me!

[Manca Švara · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Death looms in life in the form of constant change. Life in the face of death must be lived in the “readiness to take leave”. We must always be prepated to bid farewell, to undergo change, and also must always be prepared to perceive our life story of unending change, as the unfolding of our identity.”

[Paola · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mia edizione: Ia 1996 RED edizioni

[bettina blocksberg]

the way academic theses were written 40-50 years ago is just so wild to me