The Grief Cure: Looking For The End Of Loss
- Author: Cody Delistraty
- Narrator: Sean Pratt
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 5:49:30
Synopsis
“A wise and perceptive journey into grief and the ways we seek to assuage it. Incredibly powerful reading for all who have known, or who will inevitably know, loss.” —Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse and Art Monsters
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, 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, Delistraty places his own experience in dialogue with great writers and thinkers throughout history who have puzzled over this eternal question: how might we best face loss?
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Chapters
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chapter 01
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chapter 02
Duration: 59s -
chapter 03
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chapter 04
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chapter 05
Duration: 15min -
chapter 06
Duration: 28min -
chapter 07
Duration: 26min -
chapter 08
Duration: 01h02min -
chapter 09
Duration: 54min -
chapter 10
Duration: 19min -
chapter 11
Duration: 22min -
chapter 12
Duration: 36min -
chapter 13
Duration: 31min -
chapter 14
Duration: 37min -
chapter 15
Duration: 12min -
chapter 16
Duration: 01min