We tend to understand grief as a predictable five-stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Weaving in explorations of mourning rituals and the universal experiences of the death of a parent or child, Bonanno exam.
In fact, he reveals that we are already hardwired to deal with our losses efficiently--not by graduating through static phases.
But in The Other Side of Sadness , George Bonanno shows that our conventional model discounts our capacity for resilience.
We tend to understand grief as a predictable five-stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance