Five Small Deaths · Dr. Gnana Prakash Neel

The stall

Loss gets one word and one ritual, and it is the wrong word for four of the five things that actually happen to you.

Something ended and the grief does not match the size of the loss.
You have recovered on paper and not in fact.
The advice you are given is for a different ending than the one you had.

The turn

Five distinct dissolutions (of role, belief, body, belonging and self-story), each with its own course and its own recovery.

The framework

The five dissolutions

Level 1

Role

The death of who you were to other people.

Level 2

Belief

The death of a structure you organised your reasoning around.

III

Level 3

Body

The death of a capacity you did not know was load-bearing.

Level 4

Belonging

The death of a place that recognised you on sight.

Level 5

Story

The death of the account you gave yourself about where this was going.

Inside

What the book contains

01Why one word for loss is four words short
02The five dissolutions
03Locating which death you actually had
04What the research says about restarting
05Rebuilding in the correct order

PDF, stamped with your name. Read on any device. Yours permanently.

Fit

Who this is for

Written for

Readers in the year after something ended
Clinicians and counsellors who want better vocabulary

Not written for

Readers wanting comfort rather than structure
Anyone in acute crisis. Please seek direct support first

The offer

Start reading tonight

The Five Small Deaths, fourth edition
The Dissolution Diagnostic

₹299

One payment. Instant download. No subscription.

Get instant access · ₹299 · available soon

All sales final. If your copy does not arrive or will not open, we put it right.

The author

Dr. Gnana Prakash Neel

A physician by training and a writer by compulsion, working at the seam between clinical neuroscience and the Indian contemplative traditions, two systems that have been describing the same interior events in different vocabularies for a very long time. The non-fiction decomposes; the fiction escalates. Both are, underneath, the same habit of looking for the system that would make everything else make sense.

Before you buy

Fair questions

What format do I get?

PDF, stamped with your name. It arrives by email a minute or two after payment.

Is this available elsewhere?

The bonuses included here are not part of the retail edition.

Can I get a refund?

Every sale is final once your copy is delivered, because a file cannot be handed back. If your copy never arrives, will not open, or you were charged twice, write to books@quantpragna.com and we put it right or refund you.

Get instant access · ₹299 · available soon

All sales final. If your copy does not arrive or will not open, we put it right.