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| Acknowledgements | xiii | |
| Preface | 1 | |
| Part I: Observations, Concepts and Controversies | ||
| 1 | The Trauma of Loss | 7 |
| Prelude | 7 | |
| Grief in Infancy and Early Childhood | 9 | |
| Do Young Children Mourn? A Controversy | 14 | |
| Detachment | 19 | |
| 2 | The Place of Loss and Mourning in Psychopathology | 23 |
| A Clinical Tradition | 23 | |
| Ideas Regarding the Nature of Mourning Processes, Healthy and Pathological | 24 | |
| Ideas to Account for Individual Differences in Response to Loss | 34 | |
| 3 | Conceptual Framework | 38 |
| Attachment Theory: An Outline | 38 | |
| Stressors and States of Stress and Distress | 41 | |
| 4 | An Infomation Processing Approach to Defence | 44 |
| A New Approach | 44 | |
| Exclusion of Information from Further Processing | 44 | |
| Subliminal Perception and Perceptual Defence | 46 | |
| Stages at Which Processes of Defensive Exclusion May Operate | 52 | |
| Self or Selves | 59 | |
| Some Consequences of Defensive Exclusion | 64 | |
| Conditions That Promote Defensive Exclusion | 69 | |
| Defensive Exclusion: Adaptive or Maladaptive | 72 | |
| 5 | Plan of Work | 75 |
| Disposition Towards Complusive Caregiving | 206 | |
| Disposition to As |
| 81 |
| Four Phases of Mourning | 85 |
| Differences between Widows and Widowers | 103 |
| Note: Details of Sources | 106 |
| 7 | Loss of Child | 112 |
| Introduction | 112 |
| Parents of Fatally Ill Children | 113 |
| Parents of Infants Who are Stillborn or Die Early | 122 |
| Affectional Bonds of Diffrent Types: A Note | 124 |
| 8 | Mourning in Other Cultures | 126 |
| Beliefs and Customs Common to Many Cultures | 126 |
| Mourning a Grown Son in Tikopia | 132 |
| Mourning a Husband in Japan | 134 |
| 9 | Disordered Variants | 137 |
| Two Main Variants | 137 |
| Chronic Mourning | 141 |
| Prolonged Absence of Conscious Grieving | 152 |
| Mislocations fo the Lost Person's Presence | 161 |
| Euphoria | 169 |
| 10 | Conditions Affecting the Course of Mourning | 172 |
| Five Categories of Variable | 172 |
| Identity and Role of Person Lost | 173 |
| Age and Sex of Person Bereaved | 178 |
| Causes and Circumstances of Loss | 180 |
| Social and Psychological Circumstances Affecting the Bereaved | 187 |
| Evidence from Therapeutic Intervention | 195 |
| 11 | Personalities Prone to Disordered Mourning | 202 |
| Limitations of Evidence | 202 |
| Disposition to Make Anxious and Ambivalent Relationships | 203 |