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Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief

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When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for beef up. But what happens when there’s no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier son is missing in action, or the family of an Alzheimer’s patient who is suffering from severe dementia, care for the uncertainty surrounding this sort of loss?

In this sensitive and lucid account, Pauline Boss explains that, all too regularly, those confronted with such ambiguous loss fluctuate between hope and hopelessness. Suffered too long, these emotions can deaden feeling and make it not possible for people to move on with their lives. Yet the central message of this book is that they may be able to move on. Drawing on her research and clinical experience, Boss suggests strategies that can cushion the pain and help families come to terms with their grief. Her work features the heartening narratives of those who cope with ambiguous loss and be capable of leave their sadness at the back of, including those who have lost members of the family to divorce, immigration, adoption, chronic mental illness, and brain injury. With its message of hope, this eloquent book offers guidance and understanding to those struggling to regain their lives.

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