Description
When Juliet Rosenfeld's husband dies only seven months into their marriage, everything she has learnt about death as a psychotherapist is turned on its head.
As she attempts to navigate her way through her own devastating experience of loss, Rosenfeld finds herself increasingly at odds with the currently accepted therapeutic idea of grief as a process to be worked through'. Turning instead to her battered copy of Freud's seminal essay Mourning and Melancholia, she is inspired and consoled by. Freud's less prescriptive model of the journey of bereavement and the crucial distinction he draws between the savage trauma of loss-grief and the longer, unpredictable evolution of that loss into something that we call mourning.
The State of Disbelief is a beautifully written meditation on what the investment of love means and how to find your own path after bereavement in order for life to continue.
