Loss: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms

ISBN-13: 9780367404239 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 254 str.

Salman Akhtar

Opis

The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and accompanied by compensatory supplies, it can　lead to ego growth. When loss is untimely, unexpected, and unaccompanied by environmental　'holding', it becomes traumatic and needs clinical attention.

Spis treści

Ackowledgments;  About the Editors and Contributors;  Introduction;  Part I: Developmental Realm;  1. Normative and Traumatic Loss in Childhood (Ann Smolen);  2. Actual, Inevitable, and Invisible Losses during Adolescence (Jennifer Mariko Neuwalder);  3. Loss during Middle and Old Age (Julian Stern);  Part II: Cultural Realm;  4. Loss in Organizations (Philip Stokoe);  5. The Spectrum of Loss in War-torn Societies (Aleksander Dimitrijevic);  6. A Poetics of Loss (Martina Kolb);  7. Three Movies Focusing on Loss and Bereavement (Salman Akhtar & Beverly Shin);  Part III: Clinical Realm;  8. Loss as the Relational Basis of the Self and the Politics of Mourning (Clara Mucci);  9. Manifestations and Management of Childhood Parental Loss in Adult Patients (Salman Akhtar);  10. Loss, Need, and Omnipotence (Suzanne Benser);  11. Between Diagnosis and Death (Isil Vahip);  12.Therapists’ Reactions to Patients’ Death (Sybil Houlding);  References;  Index

O autorze

Salman Akhtar is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has 98 books to his credit and received the prestigious Sigourney Award in 2012.