Loss

<p>The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and accompanied by compensatory supplies, it can lead to ego growth. When loss is untimely, unexpected, and unaccompanied by environmental 'holding,' it becomes traumatic and needs clinical attention.</p><p>This edited volume brings together a distinguished cadre of international contributors in order to explain the multifaceted and nuanced nature of loss from a variety of different perspectives. These clinicians, administrators, and writers delineate the great variability in the setting, antecedents, and consequences of loss. Development-facilitating and development-impeding losses are addressed and so are the losses that seem inevitable as one moves from childhood through adolescence and young adulthood to midlife and old age. Loss experienced by institutional organizations and war-torn societies is also examined. The book’s ultimate focus is clinical: it highlights the many technical dilemmas in working with grieving patients and offers therapeutic strategies aimed at ameliorating their anguish.</p><p>Loss: <i>Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms </i>will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists both in practice and training from a variety of different backgrounds.</p> <p><em>Ackowledgments</em>; <em>About the Editors and Contributors</em>; Introduction; <strong>Part I: Developmental Realm</strong>; 1. Normative and Traumatic Loss in Childhood (<em>Ann Smolen</em>); 2. Actual, Inevitable, and Invisible Losses during Adolescence (<em>Jennifer Mariko Neuwalder</em>); 3. Loss during Middle and Old Age (<em>Julian Stern</em>); <strong>Part</strong> <strong>II: Cultural Realm</strong>; 4. Loss in Organizations (<em>Philip Stokoe</em>); 5. The Spectrum of Loss in War-torn Societies (<em>Aleksander Dimitrijevic</em>); 6. A Poetics of Loss (<em>Martina Kolb</em>); 7. Three Movies Focusing on Loss and Bereavement (<em>Salman Akhtar & Beverly Shin</em>); <strong>Part III: Clinical Realm</strong>; 8. Loss as the Relational Basis of the Self and the Politics of Mourning (<em>Clara Mucci</em>); 9. Manifestations and Management of Childhood Parental Loss in Adult Patients (<em>Salman Akhtar</em>); 10. Loss, Need, and Omnipotence (<em>Suzanne Benser</em>); 11. Between Diagnosis and Death (<em>Isil Vahip</em>); 12.Therapists’ Reactions to Patients’ Death (<em>Sybil Houlding</em>); <em>References</em>; <em>Index</em></p>