Perseus Academic: Death Benefits by Jeanne Safer

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Few of us are psychologically prepared for the death of a parent in later life. Death Benefits explores the uncharted territory each of us enters when a parent leaves us, and offers a blueprint for positive change in every aspect of our lives. Death Benefits demonstrates through powerful stories (including the author’s own revelatory experience) how parent loss is the most potent catalyst for change in middle age and can actually offer us our last, best chance to become our truest, deepest selves. Safer challenges the conventional wisdom that fundamental change is only for the young; and that loss must simply be endured or overcome. Filled with moving and engaging stories of real men and women re-imagining themselves after a parent’s death, it is a fresh, impassioned, and sophisticated look at self-transformation in later life.

Jeanne Safer, Ph.D. has been a psychotherapist for thirty-five years and is the author of three previous books on neglected psychological topics. Dr. Safer appears frequently on television and radio, and lectures on insight and transformation in adulthood for general and professional audiences. She has written for O: The Oprah Magazine, More magazine, the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Dr. Safer lives in New York City.