Finding Hope When a Child Dies

Sukie Miller, Ph.D., is a practicing psychotherapist and the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of the Afterdeath, as well as the pioneering Institute for the Study of Humanistic Medicine. She has served on the board of the Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Board of Medical Quality Assurance of the State of California. She lives in northern California.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Questions When a Child DiesPART ONE1. We Have No Language2. Our Mirror of God3. The Seventh Guilt4. Freezing in TimePART TWOIntroduction to Part Two: Answers When a Child Dies5. Why Did My Child Die?Destiny and the Seventh Guilt6. Where Is My Child Now? Will I Ever See Him Again?Life After Death, a Counterforce to Freezing in Time7. Are the Unborn Real?Death before Life, Expanding the Language after Death8. Can I Help My Child Where She's Gone?Helping Rituals, Reasserting Our Power9. Can My Child Hear Me?Calling the ChildrenPART THREEIntroduction to Part Three: Language When a Child Dies10. The Other Side of Our Mirror of God11. Initiation12. Life As an InitiateAppendix A: Self-Help ResourcesAppendix B: About the Senior Researchers for the Institute for the Study of the AfterdeathAppendix C: About the Institute for the Study of the AfterdeathEndnotesBibliographyIndex

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