Table of Contents

Observations, Concepts And Controversies * The Trauma of Loss * The Place of Loss and Mourning in Psychopathology * Conceptual Framework * An Information Processing Approach to Defense * Plan of Work The Mourning Of Adults * Loss of Spouse * Loss of Child * Mourning in Other Cultures * Disordered Variants * Conditions Affecting the Course of Mourning * Personalities Prone to Disordered Mourning * Childhood Experiences of Persons Prone to Disordered Mourning * Cognitive Processes Contributing to Variations in Response to Loss * Sadness, Depression and Depressive Disorder The Mourning Of Children * Death of Parent during Childhood and Adolescence * Childrens Responses when Conditions are Favorable * Childhood Bereavement and Psychiatric Disorder * Conditions Responsible for Differences in Outcome * Childrens Responses when Conditions are Unfavorable * Deactivation and the Concept of Segregated Systems * Disordered Variants and Some Conditions Contributing * Effects of a Parents Suicide * Responses to Loss during the Third and Fourth Years * Responses to Loss during the Second Year * Young Childrens Responses in the Light of Early Cognitive Development * Epilogue

About the Author

John Bowlby is honourary staff member of the Tavistock Clinic in London.