A Time to Mourn: Growing through the Grief Process

In what has repeatedly been called her most important book, Verena Kast examines the role of mourning in the therapeutic process.
Working as a psychotherapist, Verena Kast has often observed depressive illnesses caused by painful losses, which have not been adequately mourned. Traditionally, mourning has not been a subject of psychologists’ attention.

She uses dreams to illustrate the stages of mourning and shows systematically how the unconscious stimulates us to encounter our grief. Mourn...