Table of Contents

I: Theoretical Perspectives; 1: New Directions in Loss Research; 2: Blockades to Finding Meaning and Control; 3: Disillusionment and the Creation of Value: From Traumatic Losses to Existential Gains; 4: Exploring Loss through Autoethnographic Inquiry: Autoethnographic Stories, Co-Constructed Narratives, and Interactive Interviews; 5: A Case for Hope in Pain, Loss, and Suffering; 6: Trauma and Grief: A Comparative Analysis; II: Losses within Close Relationships; 7: The Dissolution of Close Relationships; 8: Fatal Attractions: Contradictions in Intimate Relationships; 9: Loss in the Experience of Multiracial Couples; 10: Curbing Loss in Illness and Disability: A Relationship Perspective; 11: Passion Lost and Found; III: Losses Faced by Survivors and Caretakers; 12: Implications of Communal Relationships Theory for Understanding Loss among Family Caregivers; 13: Brain Injury: A Tapestry of Loss; 14: Loss Experienced in Chronic Pain and Illness; 15: When a Loss is Due to Suicide: Unique Aspects of Bereavement; 16: Mental Health Professionals' Responses to Loss and Trauma of Holocaust Survivors; 17: Breaking the Cycle of Genocidal Violence: Healing and Reconciliation; IV: Losses Related to Social Identity; 18: The Experience of Loss in Sport; 19: What is Lost by Not Losing: Losses Related to Body Weight; 20: Homelessness and Loss: Conceptual and Research Considerations; 21: Coping with Threat from Intimate Sources: How Self-Protection Relates to Loss for Women; 22: Loss of Collective Identity: Self-Sacrifice, Beauty Contests, and Magical Practices; 23: Job Loss: Hard Times and Eroded Identity; V: Synthesizing Commentaries on Loss Theory and Research; 24: Why There Must Be a Psychology of Loss; 25: Can There Be a Psychology of Loss?; 26: Issues in the Study of Loss and Grief

About the Author

John H. Harvey