"You're going through a bereavement, you're experiencing grief," says Gardere.
Camille Claudel 1915 is a testimony to Binoche's enormous talent, much as was the film that put Binoche in the international spotlight: Kieslowski's Blue, a similarly emotionally raw story about a woman going through extreme bereavement, following the death of her husband and child.
We were going through a huge bereavement – or worse.
Clinical assessment revealed that some were suffering from complicated grief, while the others were going through the normal bereavement process.
Primal fear is what makes going through divorce, separation, bereavement, loss of a job, loss of a dream so difficult.
Now we have buried them, and we can at last start to go through the bereavement.
"When someone has gone through a bereavement, the last thing they want to think about is practicalities," said Joe Levenson, spokesman for the National Council for Palliative Care, a leading NBA charity.
A book that addresses the subject of death might be too much for a reader who has recently gone through a bereavement – but for another, it could be exactly what they need.
When she wouldn't get out of her basket a few years ago I thought she was preparing to die, so I decided to buy more from South Wales instead of going through a horrible period of bereavement.
I agree with Allen Frances ("Good Grief," Op-Ed, Aug. 15), who makes a distinction between bereavement and depression, and who also discusses the prospect of overdiagnosing and overtreating people going through the normal stages of grief.
