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Just finished @julietrosenfeld book sharing her reflections on grief and mourning following the tragic death of her husband from stage 4 lung cancer. What a generous sharing of intimate loss from personal perspective and retrospectively that of an pyschoanalyst. A thread 1/.
Interspersed with psychoanalytical theory, memories, feelings and reflections on how we as humans make sense of our own mortality, this book is as visceral as it is insightful. Thank you for sharing this. To talk about this openly as a society is essential to living. 2/.
I have written openly about how death anxiety lurks within us. I see this in the therapy room & discuss this openly with my clients. I champion the work of @DyingMatters so we 'talk more openly about dying, death and bereavement, and to make plans for the end of life' 3/.
Grief can't be theorised, it is felt so individually. As @julietrosenfeld describes, '..there is no remedy for this..'. So it is important we normalise conversations around death and dying so we can fully experience the immediacy of life. 4/.
In her book Juliet reflects on when her husband said to her, 'All of this, you know, all of this. All the bloody work I did. All the deals, all the money. It is all so, so utterly, utterly unimportant. Meaningless'. 5/.
Human beings have searched for meaning for mellinnia. Aristotle talked about a 'good life'.
So how do people manage death anxiety? Dr Hesmat talks about the role of death anxiety in daily life. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/202002/how-do-people-manage-death-anxiety
