Grief and the Healing Arts

by Bertman, Sandra L.

• ISBN13: 9780895031891
• ISBN10: 0895031892
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Baywood Pub Co

Table of Contents

Grief and the Healing Arts: Introduction	1	(1)
Sandra L. Bertman
The Five Stages of Grief	2	(19)
Linda Pastan
THE ARTS, PERSONAL GRIEFS, PROFESSIONAL ROLES
On the Psychology of Loss	21	(18)
William M. Lamers, Jr.
What the Nurse Likes	39	(4)
Cortney Davis
Preventing Harm in the Name of Help: Ensuring Ethical Care Through the Concept of ``Preserving Own Integrity''	43	(8)
Lynn Cummings
Becoming the Patient	51	(2)
Cortney Davis
Music---A Companion for the Journey form Mourning to Morning	53	(6)
Sally S. Bailey
Night Nurse	59	(2)
Cortney Davis
Comfort Care	61	(10)
L. J. Schneiderman
To Know of Suffering and the Teaching of Empathy	71	(14)
Sandra Bertmana
Melvin J. Krant
The Body Flute	85	(4)
Cortney Davis
Reflections on Suffering	89	(4)
Aaron Lazare
Hope and Millie	93	(2)
David Hatem
The Faces of AIDS: An AIDS Quilt	95	(1)
Wilma Bulkin Siegel
Seeing Fred on a Respirator	96	(3)
Carol Picard
SOME WAYS CAREGIVERS USE THE ARTS FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THOSE THEY COMPANION
Using Art Therapy with Pediatric Oncology Patients	99	(20)
Linda G. Nicholas
Suzanne Lister
Art Techniques for Children with Cancer	119	(8)
Barbara M. Sourkes
Puppets: Bridging the Communication Gap Between Caregivers and Children About Death and Dying	127	(12)
Brenda Eng
Transformations: Visual Arts and Hospice Care	139	(6)
C. Regina Kelley
Sound and Silence: Music Therapy in Palliative Care	145	(4)
Kevin Kirkland
Songlines	149	(2)
Carol Picard
Movies as Movement: Films as Catharsis in Grief Therapy	151	(22)
Lynne Martins
Forum Theatre: A Wake for Dying	173	(14)
Kate Wilkinson
Judith McDowell
Crisis in the Cafeteria	187	(12)
Maria Trozzi
The Life and Death of Yusuf Hawkins	199	(4)
Christina Schlesinger
Gravestone Rubbing: Epitaph	203	(2)
Roberta Halporn
Remembrance Photographs: A Caregiver's Gift for Families of Infants Who Die	205	(12)
Mindy L. K. Gough
LESSONS FROM CULTURES OLD AND NEW
Culture, Creativity and Death	217	(8)
J. Havelka
Visible Words: Ritual in the Pastoral Care of the Sick and Dying	225	(12)
Kurt Stasiak
The Role of the Visual Image in Psychodynamics of Grief Resolution (Viewed Through Jewish Law and Tradition)	237	(16)
Hannah Sherebrin
Pathological Grief---A Problem in Search of a Definition: The Tragedy of Hamlet as a Model	253	(12)
Roberta Halporn
Keeping Emotional Time: Music and the Grief Process	265	(12)
Lesleigh Forsyth
A Study in Grief: The Life and Art of Kaethe Kollwitz	277	(12)
Louis A. Gamino
Death and Grief Made Visible: The Life and Work of Edvard Munch	289	(14)
Judith M. Stillion
Against Daily Insignificance: Writing Through Grief	303	(10)
Martha K. Davis
Sculpting Through Grief	313	(4)
Nancy Fried
AIDS Time: A Passage Through Cawthra Park	317	(14)
James Miller
Social Support ``Internetworks,'' Caskets for Sale, and More: Thanatology and the Information Superhighway	331	(12)
Carla J. Sofka
Healing and the Internet	343	(8)
Thomas R. Golden
BASIC NEEDS OF NEEDS OF GRIEVING PEOPLE
Therapeutic Touch: For Those Who Accompany the Dying	351	(16)
Mary J. Simpson
The Nurse and the Art Are One (Meditation on the Vietnam Women's Memorial, 1994)	367	(2)
Carol Picard
Hello, David	369	(2)
Anonymous
My Mother's Hands	371	(2)
Elaine Freed Lindenblatt
The Sourdough Father	373	(4)
Leseigh Forsyth
The M(ortality) Word and the L(ove) Word	377	(16)
Elsa Dorfman
Dear Edith	393	(10)
Jessie Kesson
Silent Conversations	403	(6)
Leigh Westerfield
List of Contributors	409	(6)
Index	415