Multiple AIDS-Related Loss: A Handbook For Understanding And Surviving A Perpetual Fall (Series in Death, Dying and Bereavement)

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Summary: Too academic and no "heart".
Review: I read this book hoping it would help with multiple AIDs loss in my own life. I was very disappointed. The book is written in a style that left me cold. It is a text book and one which has no "heart", nothing in it seemed to speak to the person reading. The author is attempting to impress the reader with his research, interviews etc but one wonders why the author wrote the book at all if only to write a thesis for other psychotherapists. To say the book is for individuals dealing with multiple losses is misleading. I would not recommend this book.

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Summary: A very useful handbook for an impossible process
Review: This book has helped me to understand the experiences that I have gone through in my own life. It helped me understand that my feeling are normal and that any experience of multiple, on-going loss will have a profound impact. The interviews with multiple loss survivors resonated strongly with me and I now know I am not alone. Especially useful were the sections on spirituality and existentialism. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has suffered painful loss due to AIDS.