Gay Widowers - Michael Shernoff

Gay Widowers

Life After the Death of a Partner
Buch | Softcover
184 Seiten
1997
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56023-105-9 (ISBN)
48,60 inkl. MwSt
A collection of first person accounts of the loss of a gay partner.
A recent gay widower may find that once the shock and initial confusion of losing his partner is overcome, there are still many hard, lonely, and overwhelming stages of grief to be worked through. Often, the bereaved feels isolated, and looking around for comfort, realizes that he doesn’t have many resources to turn to, but Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner is a start. By offering first-person accounts of becoming a widower, this book, the first of its kind, allows others who are about to lose or already have lost a partner to find support, validation, recognition, and fellowship. Its editor and contributors hope that by sharing their stories of loss, pain, and bewilderment, they will help others in mourning as well as make one more step forward in their own healing.Men of different ages and ethnic, religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds join together in Gay Widowers to remind other gay widowers that they are not alone and that their feelings of pain, anger, and emptiness are normal and legitimate. Not solely a book about life after the loss of a partner to AIDS, this book is about rebuilding life as a bereaved gay man, regardless of the cause of your partner’s death. You will find encouragement for moving your life forward, without shutting your memories away, as you read about:



how homophobia can complicate a gay widower’s grieving and mourning
handling financial and legal matters before and after death
specific mental health issues of gay widowers
dating again
similarities among gay widowers’responses to their partners’deaths
making time for your feelings rather than avoiding them
finding love after or during bereavement
trauma theory’s applications to gay widowers

By bringing forth these stories, Gay Widowers offers bereaved gay men, psychologists, counselors, and social workers--in a society where the mourning process is generally a heterosexual, social construct--a clinical overview of the psychodynamic issues relevant, and perhaps unique, to the mourning process of gay men.

Michael Shernoff

Contents Foreword



Acknowledgments
Introduction
Surviving a Partner’s Death Deeply in the Closet
Do You Have a Partner?
Postcard from Grief
Excerpts from a Diary
No Return
Tracing Time
The Merry Widower
A Dream Is More than a Wish Your Heart Makes
Trading Places: A Hillside Chat with Don Bachardy
Going It Alone
I’m Not Done Yet
Conclusion: Mental Health Considerations of Gay Widowers
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.11.1997
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 216 mm
Gewicht 260 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10 1-56023-105-X / 156023105X
ISBN-13 978-1-56023-105-9 / 9781560231059
Zustand Neuware
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