The Grieving Body : How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing - Mary-Frances O'Connor

The Grieving Body

How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

Hardcover | 11 February 2025

At a Glance

Hardcover


$56.25

or 4 interest-free payments of $14.06 with

 or 

Available: 11th February 2025

Preorder. Will ship when available.


The follow-up to celebrated grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor’s The Grieving Brain focuses on the impact of grief—and life’s other major stressors—on the human body.

Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak to the psychological and emotional ramifications of loss and sorrow, we often overlook its impact on our physical bodies. Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor specializes in the study of grief, and in The Grieving Body she shares vital scientific research, revealing imperative new insights on its profound physiological impact. As she did in The Grieving Brain, O’Connor combines illuminating studies and personal stories to explore the toll loss takes on our cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems and the larger implications for our long-term well-being.

The Grieving Body addresses questions about how bereavement affects us, such as:

  • Can we die of a broken heart
  • What happens in our bodies when we’re grieving
  • How do our coping behaviors affect our physical health
  • What is the cognitive impact of grief
  • Why are we more prone to illness during times of enormous stress
  • and more

Research-backed, warm, and empathetic, The Grieving Body is an essential, hopeful read for those experiencing loss as well as their supportive friends and family.

The Grieving Body is illustrated with black-and-white charts and graphs.

More in Coping with / Advice about Death & Bereavement

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

$19.99

Being Mortal : Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
The Year of Magical Thinking : Collins Modern Classics - Joan Didion
Coping with Grief 5th Edition - Dianne McKissock

RRP $22.99

$21.90

Finding Meaning : The Sixth Stage of Grief - David Kessler
The Last Lecture : Lessons in Living - Randy Pausch
The Cost of Living : Living Autobiography - Deborah Levy
The Tibetan Book of the Dead : First Complete Translation - Graham Coleman
Nothing to Fear : Demystifying Death to Live More Fully - Julie McFadden, RN
Staring at the Sun : Overcoming the Dread of Death - Irvin D. Yalom