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AIDS has left tens of thousands of children with dead or dying parents. This epidemic is forcing us to take a new look at loss in childhood, paying attention to the impact of the social and cultural forces in these children’s surroundings on their internal/psychological worlds. This chapter is a preliminary attempt to examine these factors, integrating psychoanalytic concepts, the sociocultural context, and treatment issues. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate throughout.