Love and Loss The Roots of Grief and its Complications

"Love and Loss manages to be both academic and written in prose that dances with love around its subject." - Bel Mooney, The Times

"This book represents the application of lovely and engaging prose to the description of keen scientific observations on attachment and separation. When it comes to capturing and conveying the bond between love and loss, no one holds a firmer grip than Colin Parkes." - Holly Prigerson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA

"An essential reference for all practitioners working directly with bereavement and grief." - Colin Feltham, Therapy Today

"Colin Murray Parkes, the doyen of bereavement research, has devoted much of his career to examining the relationship of love and grief ...This volume is a milestone in the history of bereavement research and in our understanding of forms of complicated grief." - Margaret S. Stroebe, Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

"Love and Loss contains insight into the nature and origin of the acute and enduring clinical complications of loss, with separation and anxiety and its permutations as central elements. It also sets an agenda for future research. Dr. Parkes' accomplishment is creative and incomparable... My recommendation is to read it." - Selby Jacobs, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA

"Destined to join Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life as another Parkes classic." - Ken Doka, The College of New Rochelle, USA

"Parkes' impressive study provides some new perspectives on the nature of attachment as developed in childhood, its effect upon the capacity (or not) to trust both oneself and others, and the influence this has on adult relationships and responses to bereavement...Love and Loss is the impressive outcome of a dedicated empiricist and a warm humanitarian." - Linda Machin, Visiting Research Fellow, Keele University, UK