Hi Everyone,
The book I am currently reading is called 'Secrets, Lies, Betrayals - The Body/Mind Connection - How the Body Holds The Sescrets of Life and How to Unlock Them' - by Maggie Scarf, published 2004.
This may sound like a book that has nothing to do with grief, but from what I've read so far (and I've just started) it have everything to do with grief - or a LOT to do with it. The loss or abandonment of a parent when children are very young and throughout youth and early adulthood, can be and is often devastating emotionally for the child. Grief is hidden away and locked tight within one's body, forgottten in one's conscious mind, but still there, buried deep. Grief, and pain from various kinds of trauma, manifests itself in both physical and psychological/mental disorders even without us even realizing the cause! (The medical profession is very new to all of this by the way. How grief, agony, pain, fear, terror, trauma etc gets locked into the body and buried memory has only really started to 'take off' in the medical/psychiatric profession in the last ten years I would say - although, of course there were the earlier 'pioneers' like Freud, Jung, Alice Miller and others.)
I'll stop there for now.
Regards,
Helene.