loss of a child

Loss of a Child: Choosing to forgive

2 Comments / Death of A Child / By Dr. Robert Neimeyer

Dear Dr. Neimeyer, How do I forgive the person who dumped my first-born son unconscious out of his car and left him to die? I lost my son almost three years ago; someone left him unconscious and he died in an empty parking lot alone. He was an organ donor and saved five different lives. […]

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Anticipatory Grieving and Parents: somatic symptom disorders

1 Comment / Death of A Child / By Dr. Robert Neimeyer

Dear Dr. Neimeyer, I’m a physician and psychiatrist, and I have a question for you given your decades of work in both the theory and clinical practice around grief/bereavement. I am trained as a pediatrician, and also as an adult + child/adolescent psychiatrist. I now work as a psychiatrist, embedded with the pediatric palliative care

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