Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss Book

	Contributors
	Preface
	Introduction: Meaning Reconstruction and Loss	1
Pt. I	Breaking Ground: Toward a Fresh Theory of Grieving
Ch. 1	Beyond Decathexis: Toward a New Psychoanalytic Understanding and Treatment of Mourning	13
Ch. 2	Relearning the World: Making and Finding Meanings	33
Ch. 3	Meaning Making in the Dual Process Model of Coping With Bereavement	55
Pt. II	Re-Establishing Relationships: Context and Connection
Ch. 4	The Inner Representation of the Dead Child in the Psychic and Social Narratives of Bereaved Parents	77
Ch. 5	Family Construction of Meaning	95
Ch. 6	The Death of a Child With a Developmental Disability	113
Pt. III	Transcending Trauma: Growth After Loss
Ch. 7	The Tormented and the Transformed: Understanding Responses to Loss and Trauma	137
Ch. 8	Posttraumatic Growth: The Positive Lessons of Loss	157
Ch. 9	Spiritual Resources Following a Partner's Death From AIDS	173
Ch. 10	Positive Outcomes of Losing a Loved One	191
Pt. IV	Healing Stories: Research and Reflexivity
Ch. 11	Shattered Beliefs: Reconstituting the Self of the Trauma Counselor	213
Ch. 12	Embracing Their Memory: The Construction of Accounts of Loss and Hope	231
Ch. 13	Research as Therapy: The Power of Narrative to Effect Change	245
Pt. V	Renegotiating the World: Meaning Making in Grief Therapy
Ch. 14	The Language of Loss: Grief Therapy as a Process of Meaning Reconstruction	261
Ch. 15	Construing Stress: A Constructivist Therapeutic Approach to Posttraumatic Stress Reactions	293
Ch. 16	Trauma, Grief, and Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse	311
Ch. 17	Videography: Re-Storying the Lives of Clients Facing Terminal Illness	331
	Subject Index	345
	Author Index	351
	About the Editor	359