EVENT POSTPONED: Loss and Grief: Family and Community Resources by Professor Maurizio Andolfi

This session is open to the public.

Sypnosis of Workshop:

In fifty years of therapeutic experience with families from all over the world, Maurizio Andolfi found that the pain that people suffer for the loss of significant members of their family can be very intense, long lasting and sometimes devastating. The loss of a spouse, regardless of age and circumstances, (cancer, heart attack, accident, suicide) produces a long-lasting grief, difficult to overcome for the survival partner as well as for the family as a whole. The loss of a child is even more difficult to cope with and probably it will be very hard or impossible to recover from such a dramatic "unnatural" event. In this presentation, Maurizio Andolfi will outline a multigenerational and multicultural method of understanding and dealing with this issue. He will illustrate the importance of grieving together, of self-disclosure as well as sharing pain in the…