The Choice

Jan Hatanaka

Description

Now available in paperback -- Jan Hatanaka's powerful, life-enhancing book on how six people, encountering significant adversity, made a conscious choice to work to build a life of meaning.

Using six stories from her casebook as a therapist, Hatanaka explores and illustrates the complex relationships that exist between death and grief and the path that can lead to reconciling that grief.

Included in her stories is her own heart-wrenching and dramatic experience following a major health crisis. Hatanaka draws on her personal, clinical, and academic experience as she takes the reader through the Grief Reconciliation Process, describing the actual steps taken by people who manage to build a life of meaning in the face of significant adversity.

The Choice is brilliant in its simple, gentle, and profound exploration of the reality of suffering as part of the human experience. It exposes the hope that can be hidden in affliction.

The Choice will be of great help to those currently in the grips of personal adversity; the loved ones of those who are suffering; and health-care professionals, including medical practitioners, counsellors, therapists, and spiritual advisors.

Jan Hatanaka, the founder of Grief Reconciliation International Inc., holds positions at York University, Toronto, in the Department of Nursing, the Religious Studies program, and the York Institute for Health Research. She has a B.Sc. in Nursing from the University of Ottawa, a Master's degree in Education and Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Wales. Dr. Hatanaka's approach to grief and reconciliation is informed by her personal experience; her extensive academic research on the universality of grief and loss; and her in-depth discussions with hundreds of individuals willing to recount their personal stories.

Sujets

• Choices
• Grief counseling
• Adversity
• Clinical
• Reconciliation
• Explorer (disambiguation)
• Relationship
• Health
• Choice
• Life
• Exploration

Informations

• Publié par: BPS Books
• Date de parution: 07 juin 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781926645575
• Langue: English

Extrait

THE CHOICE

THE CHOICE

Copyright © 2011, 2008 by Jan Hatanaka

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher, is an infringement of the copyright law.

First published in hardcover asThe Choice: Finding Life in the Face of Death — Six Stories from a Therapist’s Casebookin 2008 by Bastian Books.

Paperback edition published in 2011 by BPS Books www.bpsbooks.com A Division of Bastian Publishing Services Ltd.

ISBN 978-1-926645-49-0

Cataloguing in Publication Data available from Library and Archives Canada.

Cover image and design: Angel Guerra, Archetype Text design and typesetting: Greg Devitt Design

Printed in USA

This book is dedicated to those who unselfishly share their firsthand knowledge and hard-won wisdom — by revealing their struggles, they allow their humanity to shine as a beacon of hope for all

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION º

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS º

INTRODUCTION º

THE GRIEF RECONCILIATION PROCESS º

ON THE BRIDGE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH º My Story

INTERGENERATIONAL GRIEF º Michael’s Story

STRIVING TO BE WHOLE º Jim’s Story

PERCEIVED THREAT º Christine’s Story

INTERGENERATIONAL WISDOM º Don’s Story

REPRESENTING THE DEAD º Rita’s Story

CLOSING COMMENTS º