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Psychiatrist and author of On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has long been considered an expert on the terminally ill, and she is credited with bringing the hospice movement to the United States. Now retired after a series of strokes, and, at 70, facing her own death, she has written The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying, a highly personal memoir. Besides telling her unusual life's story, this book is also a startling treatise on death. Recounting her research with the dying and with those who claim to have "returned" after dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross also writes eloquently about her belief in the afterlife.
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Kubler-Ross's landmark On Death and Dying (LJ 7/69) influenced much of today's work with the terminally ill. Now in her 70s and facing her own death, the renowned psychiatrist recounts here the story of a life spent not only endeavoring to understand dying but also "explaining that death does not exist." Against her father's wishes, the Swiss-born author went to medical school and studied psychiatry in New York after marrying an American physician. Drawn to end-of-life counseling, Kubler-Ross developed her techniques into professional workshops, the basis for her earliest and most influential books. Falling in with a channeler of dubious background, Kubler-Ross claims to have undergone out-of-body experiences, meetings with spirit guides, and visions of fairies. Unfortunately, this book is a puzzling combination of hastily sketched reminiscence and the worst of New Age ramblings, providing little insight into the author's character. A disappointment.
-?Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
-?Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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A fully open and honest auto-biography.....,
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This review is from: The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Paperback)
While most of us are familiar with Ms. Ross's early work in the area of grief and the acceptance of life's inevitable losses, there are only a few of us who went onto study Elisabeh's further work in the area of near-death-experiences with children, adults and AIDS patients. While less well publicized, I found these writings to be equally informative and influential in both my professional and personal lives.That being said, I doubt there are many of us who were aware of Elisabeth's final evolutionary step in dealing with the issues of life and death, namely her immersion into the metaphysical realm of mediums and channeling. Good for her! Yes, that is an area of existence that has its share of charlatans, but so, too, does every other walk of life. Elisabeth, however, was able to experience, evaluate and conclude that which is based on reality and not upon what the 'tofu eaters and crystal gazers' may want us to believe. If you are interested in following the life of a person who truly explored and came to a peaceful resolution with all aspects of life and death, "The Wheel of Life" is good choice for your perusal. If, however, you want to hold onto image of Ms. Ross as only being influential in the areas of grief acceptance and any thing further would force her to be looked upon as being 'too mystical' or 'a charlatan herself', do not read this memoir.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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learn how to live and love....marvelous and amazing book,
By Van Cat (B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews P161 *Naturally I shared these kinds of rewarding moments with my family and hoped they learned not to take anything for granted. There were no guarantees in life, except that everyone faces struggles. It is how we learn. Some face struggle from the moment they are born. They are the most special of all people, requiring the most care of compassion and reminding us that love is the sole purpose of life. P. 163 * Later someone would ask what all those dying patients had taught me about death. First I thought about giving them a very clinical explanation, but then I would have misrepresented myself. My dying patients taught so much more than what it was like to be dying. They shared lessons about what they could have done, and what they should have done, and what they didn't do until it was too late, until they were too sick or too weak, until they were widowers or widows. They looked back at their lives and taught me all of the things that were really meaningful, not about dying....but about living
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A Full Life And A Great Read,
By Ian Lawrence Daoust (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross has done the world a tremendous service by helping to humanize death and the process of dying, and in this autobiography she tells of all the surprises and inevitabilities that marked her own growth, and the growth of her work. Somewhere along the line, however, a few years back, Kubler-Ross adopted the role of an amateur prophet, and some of her later works deliver a confusing, inconsistent, and often strident set of contradictory neo-Jungian messages about matters spiritual. Those who think she lost her marbles will find plenty of evidence here as elsewhere to support their views. But this book is actually a whole lot more accessible, and far less preachy, than some of her other books have been. I think one would be unwise to ignore the complications entailed by Kubler-Ross's many spiritual injunctions, but one would be uncharitable to also dismiss the tremendous good that has come out of her life's work. I don't find in this book the accepting, non-ideological compassion of Stephen Levine, nor the unassuming experimental spirit of Raymond Moody, but Kubler-Ross remains incomparable as the initiating spokesperson for a humane death. Her tale is extraordinary, and this book is an exceptional, welcome, and one-of-a-kind read.
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