Coping with Death In the Family by Gerald Schneiderman M.D

Author:Gerald Schneiderman M.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459726390
Publisher: Dundurn Press

The Will

Too often today, the family that endures the death of a parent will harbour astonishing feelings of jealousy, distrust and, in some cases, even hatred. In families where parents act as power brokers and quite literally play their children for love, where praise and affection are used as manipulative techniques and where sibling rivalry is unwittingly (but no less effectively) encouraged, the effects are devastating. Adults who are raised in such family settings will never have the opportunity to acquire the emotional maturity and the self-esteem necessary for stable adult relationships. Nowhere are these unresolved relationships more graphically displayed than when the contents of the dead parent’s will are revealed. We all know of, or have read about, families that have been torn apart by the contents of such documents long after the author is dead and buried.

Pearl and the members of her family all suffered from feelings of low esteem, and the destructive forces within the family structure were revealed by her father’s will:

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