Delistraty, in dealing with his own grief, has attempted and experienced a wide variety of therapies. He has recounted some of the theories, and some of the opinions, behind a number of the therapies, as well as his own experience with that particular form of therapy. His experiences, while generally positive with each type of therapy, demonstrated no particular breakthroughs, or immediate cures for grief.
As an information technology specialist, and one who has been, moreover, researching griefbots and "restoration" services for some time now, I was particularly interested in chapter three, where Delistraty recounts his, and some others, experiences with some of these thanabots. Even so, his discussion fails to touch on a number of the significant risks of these types of programs or services.
Given the range of therapies that Delistraty touches on, I was rather surprised at how unhelpful this book was at recommending any kind of grief therapy. Indeed, it seems possible that the therapy Delistraty might most strongly recommend is grief journalling, and that this might be a kind of odd result of that, rather than a tool.
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