Death Benefits How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life -- for the Better

Even for an adult, the death of a parent hurts. But it need not to be devastating. When psychotherapist Jeanne Safer's ninety-two-year-old mother died, Safer was determined to derive insight from bereavement. What she learned through that process, combined with her professional work, astonished her Losing a parent can be the most potent catalyst for change in midlife that any adult will encounter. Death Benefits challenges the notion that loss must simply be endured and shows that, after the grieving for a parent stops, we will each have an unparalleled opportunity to become our truest selves. Book jacket.

Jeanne Safer, PhD, is the author of The Normal One, Beyond Motherhood, and Forgiving and Not Forgiving. She appears frequently on television and radio and has written for O, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and more. She lives in New York City.