Death Benefits How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life -- for the Better

by Safer, Jeanne

• ISBN13: 9780465018574
• ISBN10: 0465018572
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-05
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Even for an adult, the death of a parent hurts. But it need not to be devastating. When psychotherapist Jeanne Safer's ninety-two-year-old mother died, Safer was determined to derive insight from bereavement. What she learned through that process, combined with her professional work, astonished her Losing a parent can be the most potent catalyst for change in midlife that any adult will encounter. Death Benefits challenges the notion that loss must simply be endured and shows that, after the grieving for a parent stops, we will each have an unparalleled opportunity to become our truest selves. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jeanne Safer, PhD, is the author of The Normal One, Beyond Motherhood, and Forgiving and Not Forgiving. She appears frequently on television and radio and has written for O, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and more. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. ix
Introduction: Life After Death	p. 1
Death Changes Everything
My Death Benefit (Autobiography)	p. 11
Death Benefits: The Last Taboo	p. 49
Going Through the Stuff: Choosing a Legacy	p. 63
Life Benefits: Body, Mind, and Spirit
Using the Good China: Deserving a Life at Last	p. 81
My Body, Myself: Health and Beauty Benefits	p. 91
Till Death Do Us Part: Marriage and Divorce	p. 103
Lifted Up in My Mother's Arms: Religious Epiphanies	p. 119
A Voice of My Own: Creative Self-Expression	p. 131
Orphans' Benefits: Seeing Parents with New Eyes
Father Knows Best? The Punitive Parent Dies	p. 145
Mom's Best Friend: The End of Emotional Caretaking	p. 157
In Morte Veritas: The Insights Death Brings
The Eleventh Hour: Near-Death Revelations	p. 171
Perspectives from the Deathspace	p. 183
In Their End Is My Beginning: Cultivating Death Benefits	p. 205
Acknowledgments	p. 217
Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 221
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