{"product_id":"the-myth-of-closure-ambiguous-loss-in-a-time-of-pandemic-and-change-9781324016816","title":"The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With a loss of trust in the world as a safe place, a loss of certainty about health care, education, employment, lingering anxieties plague many of us, even as parts of the world are opening back up again. Yet after so much loss, our search must be for a sense of meaning, and not something as elusive and impossible as \"closure.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book provides many strategies for coping: encouraging us to increase our tolerance of ambiguity and acknowledging our resilience as we express a normal grief, and still look to the future with hope and possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoss, Pauline:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePauline Boss, PhD\u003c\/strong\u003e, is emeritus professor at University of Minnesota. She is known worldwide for developing the theory of ambiguous loss and as a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of family stress management. Dr. Boss is the author of \u003cem\u003eLoss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMyth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641513185554,"sku":"9781324016816","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_820d41ea-234c-4633-838e-92bfd790daef.jpg?v=1733020904","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-myth-of-closure-ambiguous-loss-in-a-time-of-pandemic-and-change-9781324016816","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}