Ambiguous Loss: Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief; Author: Boss, Pauline; Hardback; Book

Author: Boss, Pauline
Hardback; Book
160 pages
Published: May 1999
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674017382
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Frozen sadness: this is what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. And this is what Pauline Boss illuminates, and helps to ease, in Ambiguous Loss, an original and humane account of the ravages of uncertainty faced when we lose a loved one through divorce, adoption, addiction, chronic mental illness, immigration, or Alzheimer's. With sensitivity and lucidity, Boss explores the tumultuous emotions stirred up by such losses, especially the wide fluctuations between hope and hopelessness. Drawing on her research and clinical experience, Boss suggests strategies that cancushion the pain and offers heartening narratives of those who cope with ambiguous losses and manage to move on.Learning to live with unresolved grief.Frozen sadness - what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. This is what Pauline Boss illuminates, explores, and helps to ease. The loss could be a loved one still alive yet lost physically: a soldier son missing in action, or a constantly travelling spouse.