Faced with the unexpected

This volume, a useful guide for health professionals to support people who are facing a period of psychological difficulty, presents an articulated reflection on anticipatory mourning: a moment of change that involves us deeply.
The book deals with delicate issues, such as suicide prevention, mental preparation in the face of aterminal pathology, the interview with those who ask for psychological support. A chapter is dedicated to people who need psychological help in the post-Covid period.

Anticipatory mourning
Human life is confronted with phases of change that can be identified as grief: the word makes us thinkimmediately of the loss of a loved one, but it can refer to a wide range of situations, getting fired from a job, the ending of a relationship, a move, and even the onset of a disability. In dealing with these events there is not only the after: preparing for any unwanted change is a necessary process which concerns the former, and which often unfolds in an impractical way through anxieties and negative projections. This process is called anticipatory condolence.

The unexpected can be an opportunity
It is good to always consider the unexpected as an opportunity, its absence would deprive life of essential stimuli. Advanced mourning is a resource for living a good life and regenerating the function of the community, it accompanies man from birth to death, and it is the tool that allows you to look life in the face without fear to better go through the changes it brings us.