Linking objects and linking phenomena : a study of the forms, symptoms, metapsychology, and therapy of complicated mourning

Foreword by Harold F. Searles.

Foreword - Harold F. Searles. 1 Introduction: the evolution of research into complicated mourning. Part 1 - Phenomenological and theoretical findings. 2 Uncomplicated mourning. 3 Complications in the initial stage of the mourning process. 4 Complications in the work of mourning: reactive depression. 5 Complications in the work of mourning: established pathological mourning. 6 An example of the linking object: Othello's handkerchief. Part 2 - Treatment. 7 Psychoanalytic psychotherapy of established pathological mourning. The daughters of Goodbar. 9 Re-grief therapy. 10 Three more examples of re-grief therapy. 11 A yellow spot in the bottom of a coffee cup. Part 3 - Living linking objects and related psychological states. 12 Children's reactions to death: "Negative" outcome: the case of "Immortal Ataturk". 14 A living linking object: the case of the "Night of the living dead". Part 4 - Coda. 15 Magical inanimate objects

'...this book makes a major contribution to the understanding and treatment of pathological mourning....it shows how bereaved persons, unable to complete ther mourning and hence fixated in "complicated mourning," can be helped in treatment.'

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