"Mark Holmwood portrays the intimate, passionate, and powerful processes of human loss, grief, trauma, and healing. He explores these through the lens of selected films and psychoanalytical concepts, taking the reader through a compelling journey of bereavement and grief that is both disturbing and captivating.
Mark includes a powerful autobiographical dimension whilst weaving an accessible account in which rich analyses of film characters interconnect with theory to craft enthralling cases of love, hate, loss, destruction, and redemption. He courageously profiles personal experience and critical analyses to creatively construct a narrative that will impact a wide and diverse readership in multiple ways. From those involved in the
film industry, to academics, practitioners working with loss and grief, and people experiencing bereavement, this book offers essential reading."
Lynne Gabriel,
Professor of Counselling and Mental Health, York St John University, York, UK"Sensitively written, Holmwood's book offers a unique insight into traumatic bereavement. Through a series of poignant and holistic analyses of fictionalised trauma in films, this research offers a valuable contribution to thought in this area, with the potential to influence both therapists and filmmakers alike."
Professor Terry Perk,
University for the Creative Arts, UK"Mark's work presents a distinctive insight into the unbearable pain of suicide. He examines the filmmaker's vision of trauma alongside his own and offers the general reader, professional and survivor alike, warm, wise, and accessible thought which they in turn can benefit from. This is a unique offering."
Peter Bridgewater,
Founder of Ivy Press & of the Lewes group of Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide, UK
