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Ambiguous loss : learning to live with unresolved grief / Pauline Boss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boss, Pauline.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loss (Psychology).
- Grief.
- Families--Psychological aspects.
- Families.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Adaptation, Psychological.
- Family--psychology.
- Interpersonal Relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Adaptation, Psychological.
- Family--psychology.
- Grief.
- Interpersonal Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 155 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Frozen sadness - what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. This is what Pauline Boss illuminates, explores, and helps to ease. The loss could be a loved one still alive yet lost physically: a soldier son missing in action, or a constantly travelling spouse.
- Contents:
- Frozen grief
- Leaving without goodbye
- Goodbye without leaving
- Mixed emotions
- Ups and downs
- The family gamble
- The turning point
- Making sense out of ambiguity
- The benefit of a doubt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-151).
- ISBN:
- 9780674003811
- 0674003810
- OCLC:
- 45450044
- Publisher Number:
- 99968023612
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