Essential papers on object loss

Introduction. Part 1 - Grief observed. 1 Is grief a disease? - George L. Engle. 2 Symptomatology and management of acute grief - Erich Lindemann. Part 2 - Theoretical foundations. 3 Mourning and melancholia - Sigmund Freud. 4 The ego and the id: part 3 (abridged): The ego and the super-ego (ego ideal) - Sigmund Freud. 5 Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety: Addendum C: Anxiety, pain, and mourning - Sigmund Freud. 6 Fetishism - Sigmund Freud. 7 Letter to Ludwig Binswanger - Sigmund Freud. 8 A short study of the development of the libido, viewed in the light of mental disorders (abridged) - Karl Abraham. 9 Mourning and its relation to manic-depressive states - Melanie Klein. 10 Internalization, separation, mourning, and the superego - Hans W. Loewald. 11 Mourning and adaptation - George H. Pollock. Part 3 - Characteristics of pathological mourning. 12 Pathological mourning and childhood mourning. 13 Absence of grief - Helene Deutsch. 14 The return of the lost parent - Edith Jacobson. 15 Some narcissistic consequences of object loss: a developmental view - Robert L. Tyson. Part 4 - Technical issues in the treatment of complicated mourning in adults. 16 Activation of mourning and growth by psycho-analysis - Joan Fleming and Sol Altschul. 17 The treatment of established pathological mourners - Vamik D. Volkan and Daniel Josephthal. Part 5 - Mourning in childhood. 18 How is mourning possible? - Martha Wolfenstein. 19 Additional remarks on mourning and the young child - Robert A. Furman. 20 A child's capacity for mourning - Robert A. Furman. 21 Some effects of the parent's death on the child's personality development - Erna Fukrman. 22 On the concept of mourning in childhood: reactions of a two-and-one-half-year-old girl to the death of her father - Christina Sekaer and Sheri Katz. Part 6 - Case reports illustrating aspects of mourning in children, adolescents, and adults. 23 Treatment-via-the-parent: a case of bereavement - Erna Furman. 24 Mourning accomplished by way of the transference - Marie E. McCann. 25 The treatment of early object loss: the need to search - Paul M. Lerner. Part 7 - Object loss and creativity: mourning and reparation. 26 A psycho-analytical approach to aesthetics - Hanna Segal. 27 Parental loss and genius - J. Marvin Eisenstadt

'This book shows that the consequences of object loss are determined by a combination of potentially devastating processes. These processes interact with individual differences in talent and endowment and with the presence or absence of suitable replacement objects and help at the time of the loss. This ensemble of factors can lead to potentially serious ego arrests and regressions. Also, either at the time of loss or later on, these victims may produce hysterical identifications with the sick and dying parent. Additionally, these losses can shape later object choice in adults.' --Introduction

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