Grief and Powerlessness

A personal introduction; coping with loss - the context and the response; griefs of children; the griefs of adulthood and old age; the interweaving of loss of role, status and expectation; loss of material possessions and spiritual pain - the paradox; disability and frailty, grief and powerlessness; cultural aspects of loss - migrants and refugees; the grief of being HIV positive and of AIDS; the grief, anger and powerlessness of suicide; volunteering, neighbourliness and helping; facilitating change in blocked grief; music therapy for blocked grief; the challenges and griefs of the helper.