Robert Neimeyer

Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, where he also maintains an active clinical practice. Neimeyer also serves as Director of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, which offers training and certification in grief therapy.
The Speed Of The Body
Coping With Grief

The Speed of the Body

In the paroxysms of grief I fall to my knees lean into the couch face buried in a cushion, wailing to a nameless god. The

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5 Minutes Of Truth
Coping With Grief

5 Minutes Of Truth

I remember times when Truth was inscribed in capitals, like the opening lines of an illuminated manuscript its compulsive fantasies emblazoned in the tinted ink

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Old Shoes
Coping With Grief

Old Shoes

I’m wearing old shoes and will for a while yet the grief still holding close. Sometimes when the longing for a single living thing overcomes

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