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Not quite 60 years ago, shortly after my 13th birthday, my father died. He died suddenly, after a 3-week illness. No doubt his death, and its sudden nature, had a profound shaping influence on the course of my life, including my eventual professional choice, evolving clinical interests, and sensibilities. Although my interest in the subject of this book has deep roots personally and professionally, I must confess that it was fully 20 years into my career before I began to seriously reflect upon the connection between his death and its impact on my work as a psychoanalyst (Warshaw, 1996). In the process of reading through this newest addition to the bereavement literature, I found myself once again revisiting the connections between my childhood loss, its impact on my professional work and my perspectives on the clinical issues under discussion. I could not approach this review as an entirely neutral party, but as one who has strong personal feelings about the complexity of the issues with which it deals, and the lifelong process of integration of early loss. With a surprising mixture of resistance and deep engagement, I found myself stimulated, and gaining newer personal insights, several of which have had direct relevance to my current clinical work with adults as well as children. As I struggled to read this book, a process made difficult only because the topic was so personally meaningful, I became confirmed in my belief that this is not only an important book to read for those who work with bereaved children and adolescents, but also for those who work with adults who have lost a parent at a developmentally earlier stage. Furthermore, this is a resource to return to time and again, a source of self-supervision, and an important reference book enhancing and challenging our understanding of mourning in all its complexity. Indeed, Volkan (2014) in this volume speaks to the issue of “adult type mourning”, both defining it and simultaneously speaking to the somewhat