Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow

The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow

By: Judith Viorst

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Paperback | 1 January 1998

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From grief and mourning to aging and relationships, poet and Redbook contributor Judith Viorst presents a thoughtful and researched study in this examination of love, loss, and letting go.

Drawing on psychoanalysis, literature, and personal experience, Necessary Losses is a philosophy for understanding and accepting life’s inevitabilities.

In Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are a certain and necessary part of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers’ protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She has written a book that is both life affirming and life changing.

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United Press International The kind of book that belongs in every household. It is simply healthy to have around. Benjamin Spock, M.D. This perceptive book should absorb and enrich anyone who admits to being human. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People One of the most sensitive and comprehensive books about the human condition I have read in a long time.

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Introduction	p. 15
The Separate Self
The High Cost of Separation	p. 21
The Ultimate Connection	p. 34
Standing Alone	p. 43
The Private "I"	p. 51
Lessons in Love	p. 66
The Forbidden and the Impossible
When Are You Taking That New Kid Back to the Hospital?	p. 83
Passionate Triangles	p. 100
Anatomy and Destiny	p. 115
Good as Guilt	p. 130
Childhood's End	p. 142
Imperfect Connections
Dreams and Realities	p. 161
Convenience Friends and Historical Friends and Crossroads and Cross-Generational Friends and Friends Who Come When You Call at Two in the Morning	p. 170
Love and Hate in the Married State	p. 185
Saving the Children	p. 205
Family Feelings	p. 223
Loving, Losing, Leaving, Letting go
Love and Mourning	p. 237
Shifting Images	p. 265
I Grow Old ... I Grow Old	p. 284
The ABC of Dying	p. 305
Reconnections	p. 325
Notes and Elaborations	p. 329
Bibliography	p. 413
Index	p. 432
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Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow

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