title: Cognitive Grief Therapy: Constructing a Rational Meaning to Life Following Loss
author: Ruth Malkinson Ph.D.
description: [A]n impressive contribution to the theoretical understanding of and clinical interventions with patients facing the task of coming to terms with traumatic loss.[W]e, as therapists, can now, in this book, enjoy the fruits of Malkinsons long and rich experience with patients who lost their loved ones, [it] is a tribute to the authors inner strength, humanity, deep understanding, and above all real care for other human beings who in their pain and suffering form a mirror in which we can, will and must see ourselves as well.<br /> - <strong><em>Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews</em></strong><br /><br />[A] superb look into grief theory and treatment.innovative.pioneering.I highly recommend this text.<br /> - <strong><em>Omega Journal of Death and Dying</em></strong><br /><br />Malkinson has made a good, and timely, contribution to the literature on this important issue.<br /> - <strong><em>Bereavement Care</em></strong>
zlib_text: SAMEET M. KUMAR, PH.D.
  Foreword by JEFFREY BRANTLEY, MD, 
  author of Calming Your Anxious Mind
  grieving mindfully
  A Compassionate and Spiritual 
  Guide to Coping with Loss
  
  “Grief and loss are dreaded experiences that many wish to either avoid
  or to rapidly solve. In Grieving Mindfully, Kumar offers the alternative
  of welcoming the experience as an opportunity to develop our human-
  ity. This book offers a path to healthy grieving for people encountering
  losses of many kinds.”
  —Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  “Kumar’s approach to dealing with grief and loss is creative and radi-
  cally transformative. Drawing on his experience as a practicing psy-
  chologist and his training in the Buddhist enlightenment tradition, he
  suggests that instead of hiding from our grief, trying to forget or get
  over it, we take a more demanding and rewarding path—walking
  straight through grief with mindful awareness, fearless observance, and
  profou