Grief-stricken Poland falls silent for president – Poland fell silent on Sunday after its president and much of the ruling elite were wiped out in a plane crash in Russia, as investigators probed why the pilo…

A Gift of Grief: One Important Way of Loving for Valentine's Day

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Alice Miller is one of the poets of psychotherapy who spoke of the profound difference between mourning and depression. She, herself saw depression as flatness, as the opposite of what she saw, not as happiness, but as vitality — the capacity to feel …
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Addicts deserve the right to anonymity

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In the outpouring of grief that has followed the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, much has been written about the tragic nature of his seemingly drug-related death. Some beautiful writing has eulogised the man and his … The presumption that …
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