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Essay Archive - The Healing Process
The Healing Process
This is a brief psychological overview of the healing process. The image of
healing is best described by Gloria Vanderbilt in "A Mother's Story" when she
talks of breaking the invisible unbreakable glass bubble which enclosed her that
kept her always anticipating loss with echoes of all past losses. She wrote, for
example (Page 3),"Some of us are born with a sense of loss there from the
beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives. Loss, as defined, as
deprivation, can be interpreted as being born into a world that does not include
a nurturing mother and father. We are captured in an unbreaka....
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