The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss

The Grief Cure is a lyrical and moving story of the world of Prolonged Grief, exploring what modern science, history, and literature reveal about the nature of our relationship to grief and our changing attitudes toward its cure. It offers a fresh understanding of what living with grief truly means and explores innovative avenues of treatment.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 18 July 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

If you have ever experienced grief or anticipate doing so, you must read The Grief Cure. It is magnificent. — Susan Cain, author of Bittersweet and Quiet The Next Big Idea Clubs Must-Read Book of June A Bustle Most Anticipated Read In this lyrical and moving story of the world of Prolonged Grief, journalist Cody Delistraty reflects on his experience with loss and explores what modern science, history, and literature reveal about the nature of our relationship to grief and our changing attitudes toward its cure. When Cody Delistraty lost his mother to cancer in his early 20s, he found himself unsure how to move forward. The typical advice was to move through the five stages, achieve closure, get back to work, and go back to normal. So begins a journey into the new frontiers of grief, where Delistraty seeks out the researchers, technologists, therapists, marketers, and communities around the world who may be able to cure the pain of loss in novel ways. From the neuroscience of memory deletion to book prescriptions, laughter therapy, psilocybin, and Breakup Bootcamp, what ultimately emerges is not so much a cure as a fresh understanding of what living with grief truly means. As Delistraty created his own ad hoc treatment plan, the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization gave extended, disruptive grief an official name: Prolonged Grief Disorder. A diagnosis, based on meeting several symptoms and contingencies, has opened innovative avenues of treatment and an important conversation about a debilitating form of grief, but it has also opened a debate as to whether this form of grief, no matter how severe and unrelenting, is best approached medically at all. Braiding deep, emotional resonance with sharp research and historical insight.

Weight: 282g
Dimension: 147 x 219 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063256842