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. Conversely, when loss is untimely, unexpected, and unaccompanied by environmental 'holding,' it becomes traumatic and needs clinical attention.
Key Features
- This edited volume brings together a distinguished cadre of international contributors to explain the multifaceted and nuanced nature of loss.
- Contributors include clinicians, administrators, and writers who delineate the variability in the setting, antecedents, and consequences of loss.
- The book addresses both development-facilitating and development-impeding losses, as well as losses experienced by institutional organisations and war-torn societies.
- It highlights the technical dilemmas in working with grieving patients and offers therapeutic strategies aimed at ameliorating their anguish.
Additional Information
Loss: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists both in practice and training from a variety of different backgrounds.
