Picking Up the Pieces: Healing Ourselves After Personal Loss.Picking up The Pieces: Healing Ourselves After Personal Loss, by Barbara Hansen, PhD. Published 1990, 194 pp. This is an anecdotal self-help book based on the author's thirty years of experience as a paraplegic paraplegic /para·ple·gic/ (-ple´jik) 1. pertaining to or of the nature of paraplegia. 2. an individual with paraplegia. , a college professor, and a student's confidante. The author identifies obstacles to positive adaptation in a wide variety of losses. She then discusses healing, which she describes as "picking up the pieces" in order to move forward with one's life. The focus is on the here and now, but, in her view, grieving is a strong element in the adaptation process. The information in this very readable book can be applied to illness-related losses and to many general life crises. Available from Taylor Publishing Company, 1550 West Mockingbird mockingbird: see mimic thrush. mockingbird Any of several New World birds of a family (Mimidae) known for their mimicry of birdsong. The common, or northern, mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) can imitate the songs of 20 or more species within 10 Lane, Dallas, TX 75235. Hard cover, $14.95. Reviewed by Diann Fox Geronemus, LCSW LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker , LCSW. South Florida MS Chapter Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. . |
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