The Public and Private Management of Grief Recovering Normal /

• Main Author: Pearce, Caroline (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Culture.; Counseling.; Social service.; Medical Sociology.; Sociology of Culture.; Counselling and Interpersonal Skills.; Social Work and Community Development.

Through a critical analysis of theory, policy and practice, The Public and Private Management of Grief looks at how 'recovery' is the prevailing discourse that measures and frames how people grieve, and considers what happens when people 'fail' to recover. Pearce draws on in-dept...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Recovering Normal
• 2. Grief as a Psychological Object of Study
• 3. Making Sense of Grief
• 4. Affective Practices: Managing Grief. - 5. Emotions, Bodies, Practices
• 6. Inhabiting and Resisting Identities. - 7. The Other Side of Recovery.