Necessary Losses
The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of US Have
Simon & Schuster · Print & ebook · January 5, 1998
From grief and mourning to aging and relationships, poet and Redbook contributor Judith Viorst presents a thoughtful and researched study in this examination of love, loss, and letting go.
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- Who it’s for
- For when you want insight into attachment, loss, and the hard business of becoming yourself.
- Genres
- Grief & Loss, Relationships
- Published
- Simon & Schuster, January 5, 1998
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From grief and mourning to aging and relationships, poet and Redbook contributor Judith Viorst presents a thoughtful and researched study in this examination of love, loss, and letting go. Drawing on psychoanalysis, literature, and personal experience, Necessary Losses is a philosophy for understanding and accepting life’s inevitabilities.
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In Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are a certain and necessary part of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers’ protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She has written a book that is both life affirming and life changing.
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For when you want insight into attachment, loss, and the hard business of becoming yourself.
Come here for
- clear-eyed take on growing up, loving, and letting go
- psychology with a humane, unsentimental edge
Expect
- layered reflection, not quick fixes
- plainspoken guidance with real emotional weight
Where it sits
| Grief & Loss | 72% |
|---|---|
| Relationships | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Grief & Loss
- Getting Motivated
- Authors
- Judith Viorst
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- January 5, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Grief & Loss