Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide

by Christopher Lukas

Description

Silent Grief is a book for and about “suicide survivors” – those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself – several members of his family have taken their own lives – and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. These personal testimonies are combined with the professional expertise of Henry M. Seiden, a psychologist and psychoanalytic show more psychotherapist. The authors present information on common experiences of bereavement, grief reacti show less

Recommendations

No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One by Carla Fine

No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One

Carla Fine

But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Helping Children and Families After a Suicide by Barbara Rubel

But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Helping Children and Families After a Suicide

Barbara Rubel

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Kay Redfield Jamison

Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After a Suicide by Beverly Cobain

Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After a Suicide

Beverly Cobain

How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Peter McWilliams

How to Survive the Loss of a Love

Peter McWilliams

A Special Scar: The Experiences of People Bereaved by Suicide, 2e by Alison Wertheimer

A Special Scar: The Experiences of People Bereaved by Suicide, 2e

Alison Wertheimer

A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Death of Someone You Love by Kathleen O'Hara

A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Death of Someone You Love

Kathleen O'Hara

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One by Ann Smolin

Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One

Ann Smolin

Suicide Why: 85 Questions and Answers About Suicide by Adina Wrobleski

Suicide Why: 85 Questions and Answers About Suicide

Adina Wrobleski

Finding Your Way after the Suicide of Someone You Love by David B. Biebel

Finding Your Way after the Suicide of Someone You Love

David B. Biebel

Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss by Michael F. Myers

Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss

Michael F. Myers

Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner by J. William Worden

Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner

J. William Worden

Good Grief: A Constructive Approach to the Problem of Loss by Granger E. Westberg

Good Grief: A Constructive Approach to the Problem of Loss

Granger E. Westberg

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

David D. Burns

Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice by Kenneth J. Doka

Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice

Kenneth J. Doka

No Time For Goodbyes: Coping with Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death by Janice Harris Lord

No Time For Goodbyes: Coping with Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death

Janice Harris Lord

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Andrew Solomon

After Suicide (Christian Care Books) by JOHN H HEWETT

After Suicide (Christian Care Books)

JOHN H HEWETT

The Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James

The Grief Recovery Handbook

John W. James

Why Suicide? Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and Assisted Suicide by Eric Marcus

Why Suicide? Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and Assisted Suicide

Eric Marcus

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: Help for the Losses in Life by Margaret Metzgar

A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: Help for the Losses in Life

Margaret Metzgar

Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling by Michelle Linn-Gust

Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling

Michelle Linn-Gust

My Son . . . My Son . . .: A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide by Iris Bolton

My Son . . . My Son . . .: A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide

Iris Bolton

Living through Mourning by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff

Living through Mourning

Harriet Sarnoff Schiff

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Hope Edelman

Someone I Love Died by Suicide: A Story for Child Survivors and Those Who Care for Them by Doreen T. Cammarata

Someone I Love Died by Suicide: A Story for Child Survivors and Those Who Care for Them

Doreen T. Cammarata

When a Baby Dies: The Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death by Nancy Kohner

When a Baby Dies: The Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death

Nancy Kohner

Surviving Grief ... and Learning to Live Again by Catherine M. Sanders

Surviving Grief ... and Learning to Live Again

Catherine M. Sanders

A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One by Phyllis R. Silverman

A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One

Phyllis R. Silverman

After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief by Bob Baugher

After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief

Bob Baugher

Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) by Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series)

Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing by Thomas R. Golden

Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing

Thomas R. Golden

The Wilderness of Grief: Finding Your Way (Understanding Your Grief) by Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

The Wilderness of Grief: Finding Your Way (Understanding Your Grief)

Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

Questions and Answers on Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Questions and Answers on Death and Dying

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention by Earl A. Grollman

Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention

Earl A. Grollman

The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love by Thomas Attig

The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love

Thomas Attig

Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief (Death Education, Aging and Health Care) by Dennis Klass

Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief (Death Education, Aging and Health Care)

Dennis Klass

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas

Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke by Kenneth J. Doka

Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke

Kenneth J. Doka

Living When a Loved One Has Died by Earl A. Grollman

Living When a Loved One Has Died

Earl A. Grollman

Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry

Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

Derek Humphry

When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent by Rebecca Abrams

When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent

Rebecca Abrams

After Suicide: A Ray Of Hope For Those Left Behind by E. Betsy Ross

After Suicide: A Ray Of Hope For Those Left Behind

E. Betsy Ross

I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One by Brook Noel

I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

Brook Noel

Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series) by Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series)

Alan D. Wolfelt PhD

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grieving Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn, Revised Edition (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement) by Kenneth J. Doka

Grieving Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn, Revised Edition (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)

Kenneth J. Doka

Complete Recommendations

Member Reviews

Featured Recent Thumbs

All Ratings
1
2
1

1 review

babs605 55 reviews

As you can see from the title, not a book for the average reader. But for those of us for whom it applies, it is a nice start on the long road to healing.

Ratings