Ambiguous Loss : : Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief / / Pauline Boss.

What happens when there is mourning with no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier son is missing in action, or the family of an Alzheimer's patient who is suffering from severe dementia, deal w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Frozen Grief
  • 2 Leaving without Goodbye
  • 3 Goodbye without Leaving
  • 4 Mixed Emotions
  • 5 Ups and Downs
  • 6 The Family Gamble
  • 7 The Turning Point
  • 8 Making Sense out of Ambiguity
  • 9 The Benefit of a Doubt
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments