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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pauline Boss illuminates, explores, and helps to ease the kind of loss which is based on uncertainty, such as a soldier son missing in action, the loss of family members to divorce, adoption, addiction or brain injury, and the loss of a homeland.

Frozen sadness - what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. This is what Pauline Boss illuminates, and helps to ease. It could be a loved one still alive yet lost to a person: a soldier son missing in action, or a constantly travelling spouse. In another kind of ambiguous loss, the loved one may be physically present but beyond a person's reach - such as someone with Alzheimer's disease.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151).

ISBN:

9780674028586

0674028589

OCLC:

923110043