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Counting My People, by Dr. Helen Davey
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/helen-davey/counting-my-people-an-aut_b_354491.html
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on November 13, 2009
Friendship and Mourning
Jacques Derrida wrote: ''Philia [friendship] begins with the possibility of survival. Surviving--that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.'' In other words, every friendship is structured from the beginning by the possibility that one friend will die first and the surviving friend will be left to mourn. Death ...
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on October 2, 2009
Emily Running
EMILY RUNNING My favorite time of day is walking Emily to school in the morning. We kiss as we leave our driveway so other kids won't see us. If I'm lucky, we have a second kiss, furtively, at the school-yard's edge. My insides beam as she turns from me and runs to the building where her class is held, blonde hair flowing, backpack ...
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on August 1, 2009
Finitude
FINITUDERobert D. StolorowIf we’re not self-lying,we’re always already dying.If we’re not self-deceiving,we’re always already grieving.The answer to the existential quiz?“Good-bye is all there is.”
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on April 22, 2009
Always Grieving
In my view, we NEVER ''recover'' from grief. We find a place for it in an expanded life. (See RD Stolorow, Trauma and Human Existence, Routledge, 2007.)
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on April 21, 2009
Meghan's article on Grieving
Meghan's article was beautiful and touching. She did a wonderful and loving job comforting her mother who was ready to leave and receive her reward in heaven. May her soul now rest in peace. Mary Jane Hurley Brant, M.S., CGP Author of When Every Day Matters: A Mother's Memoir on Love, Loss and Life Simple Abundance Press, Oct. 1, ...
Posted to Grieving by Mary Jane Hurley Brant on April 20, 2009
The Fray
A well written article. Frightening but true. My prayers go out to all of the suffering families involved. It's unbearable pain. May God help and comfort them during this anniversary time and every day thereafter. Mary Jane Hurley Brant, M.S., CGP Author of When Every Day Matters: A Mother's Memoir on Love, Loss and Life Simple Abundance ...
Posted to Assessment by Mary Jane Hurley Brant on April 20, 2009
The ONLY good reason to keep newspapers around.
I work for the newspaper industry. Each and every day I go to work and the news is pretty much the same. The only thing I read anymore is the comics; although some of them do not belong on the comics page (Doonesbury, Mary Worth, Brenda Starr) these never make anyone laugh. I know this industry is going under and I am in search of a different ...
Posted to Moneybox by Stone Silent on April 7, 2009
Emotional Trauma and Insecurity
In my book, Trauma and Human Existence (Routledge, 2007), I claimed that the essence of emotional trauma lay in the shattering of what I called the ''absolutisms of everyday life''--the illusory beliefs that allow us to experience the world as stable, predictable, and safe. Trauma exposes our finitude and the finitude of all those with whom we are ...
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on April 4, 2009
My Long Goodbye
Meghan O'Rourke's interpretation of Hamlet's unintegrated grief is right on the money. Grief that cannot find what I call a ''relational home'' becomes melancholia. This is one of the points that I emphasize in my book, Trauma and Human Existence (Routledge, 2007), which can be accessed via my website, robertdstolorow.googlepages.com. The ideas in ...
Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on March 31, 2009

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