Essential Papers on Object Loss Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Grief Observed	7
1	Is Grief a Disease?	10
	Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief	18
Pt. II	Theoretical Foundations	33
3	Mourning and Melancholia	38
4	The Ego and the Id: Part III (Abridged): The Ego and the Super-Ego (Ego Ideal)	52
5	Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety: Addendum C: Anxiety, Pain, and Mourning	59
6	Fetishism	63
7	Letter to Ludwig Binswanger	70
8	A Short Study of the Development of the Libido, Viewed in the Light of Mental Disorders (Abridged)	72
9	Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States	95
10	Internalization, Separation, Mourning, and the Superego	124
11	Mourning and Adaptation	142
Pt. III	Characteristics of Pathological Mourning	181
12	Pathological Mourning and Childhood Mourning	185
13	Absence of Grief	223
14	The Return of the Lost Parent	233
15	Some Narcissistic Consequences of Object Loss: A Developmental View	252
Pt. IV	Technical Issues in the Treatment of Complicated Mourning in Adults	269
16	Activation of Mourning and Growth by Psycho-Analysis	273
17	The Treatment of Established Pathological Mourners	299
Pt. V	Mourning in Childhood	325
	Do Children Mourn? A Controversy	327
18	How Is Mourning Possible?	334
19	Additional Remarks on Mourning and the Young Child	363
20	A Child's Capacity for Mourning	376
21	Some Effects of the Parent's Death on the Child's Personality Development	382
22	On the Concept of Mourning in Childhood: Reactions of a Two-and-One-Half-Year-Old Girl to the Death of Her Father	403
Pt. VI	Case Reports Illustrating Aspects of Mourning in Children, Adolescents, and Adults	429
23	Treatment-via-the-Parent: A Case of Bereavement	433
24	Mourning Accomplished by Way of the Transference	449
25	The Treatment of Early Object Loss: The Need to Search	469
Pt. VII	Object Loss and Creativity: Mourning and Reparation	483
26	A Psycho-Analytical Approach to Aesthetics	486
27	Parental Loss and Genius	509
	Editor's References	534
	Highly Recommended Readings	540
	Name Index	543
	About the Editor	547