Corinne Masur Knihy

This guide offers insights into how children experience and express grief throughout their developmental stages. It equips parents and caretakers with practical tools and understanding to support children as they navigate their emotions, helping them to cope with loss effectively. The book emphasizes the importance of age-appropriate communication and strategies tailored to each stage of a child's growth, making it a valuable resource for fostering resilience in the face of grief.

The collection of essays explores the denial of death among psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, examining its impact on clinical practice. It delves into how early childhood experiences with mortality shape the professional growth of psychoanalysts, offering insights into the psychological implications of confronting death in the therapeutic setting.

For many years, debate has raged as to whether children are capable of embarking on a true mourning process. In When a Child Grieves , Corinne Masur provides an excellent overview of the myriad psychoanalytic theories on the subject and demonstrates conclusively that children can and do mourn. She describes how children and adolescents experience grief and how the mourning process can go awry. Dr Masur provides ample guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents struggling with their grief, alongside a multitude of clinical examples to illustrate her salient points. One detailed and poignant case history is returned to throughout the book, that of a three-year-old who lost his father to suicide. This sensitive and important work fills a void in the literature and will become a key text for trainees and qualified psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, clinicians, and other professionals working with bereaved children.