Sorrow's Long Road by Barbara Blatchley - ISBN: 9780231222501
Paperback
Science meets sorrow: Understanding grief through research and personal experience.

Sorrow's Long Road

The Science of Grief

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    26 September 2025

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Summary

After the research psychologist Barbara Blatchley lost her husband and partner of thirty-six years, her life changed utterly. Seeking to understand the pain and confusion she felt, Blatchley began exploring the psychology and neuroscience of bereavement. Why does grief last so long and hurt so much? How do we come to terms with loss?

In Sorrow’s Long Road, Blatchley interweaves an engaging and reader-friendly look at the research on grief with her powerful personal narrative. Beginnin…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780231222501
ISBN-10:0231222505
Author:Barbara Blatchley
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Imprint:Columbia University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:26 September 2025
Weight:294g
Dimensions:140mm x 216mm
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Sorrow's Long Road by Barbara Blatchley - ISBN: 9780231222501
140 × 216 mm
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Critics Review

A very personal and candid account of a scientist’s grieving process and an impressive attempt to make scientific sense of and understand grief. The major lesson: You will never be who you were before the loss, but most can happily and ‘healed’ move forward as a new and different person. – Ad Vingerhoets, author of Why Only Humans Weep: Unravelling the Mysteries of Tears
Moving and insightful. – Christopher Lane, Ph.D. * Psychology Today *

About The Author

Barbara Blatchley

Barbara Blatchley is professor emerita of psychology and neuroscience at Agnes Scott College. She is the author of What Are the Chances? Why We Believe in Luck (Columbia, 2021).

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