by Edward K. Rynearson

A violent death can haunt a family until it has been explained, or until the perpetrator is identified and justice and order are reestablished. Family members can remain mired in the retelling of the death and cannot fully engage in their own living.

Rynearson presents a strategy for restorative retelling that is based on his 30 years of clinical practice and research with families after a violent death, as well as his own wife's suicide. He offers hope that there is a way to survive and accommodate a violent death, to begin and continue the self-transformation that makes moving beyond survival possible.

Paperback, 164 pages.