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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778182403321

Autore

Boss Pauline

Titolo

Ambiguous loss [[electronic resource] ] : learning to live with unresolved grief / / Pauline Boss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-674-02858-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155p.)

Disciplina

155.93

Soggetti

Loss (Psychology)

Grief

Families - Psychological aspects

Interpersonal relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.