Continuing bonds : new understandings of grief / edited by Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman and Steven Nickman.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1 Examining the dominant model: introduction - what\'s the problem. Part 2 Setting the stage: broken hearts or broken bonds; grief that does not end; grief in an Eastern culture - Japanese ancestor worship. Part 3 The inner representation of the deceased: children\'s construction of their dead parent; bereaved children\'s changing relationships with the deceased; remembering a parent who has died - a developmental perspective; relationship and heritage - manifestations of on-going attachment following father death. Part 4 Spousal bereavement: widowhood and husband sanctificaion; remarriage of widowed persons - a triadic relationship; memories of the death and life of a spouse - the role of images and sense of presence grief. Part 5 Parental bereavement: the deceased child in the psychic and social worlds of bereaved parents during the resolution of grief; the wounded family - bereaved parents and the impact of adult child loss. Part 6 Bereaved siblings: basic constructs of a theory of adolescent sibling bereavement. Part 7 Adoptee losses: retroactive loss in adopted persons; grief and the birth-origin fantasies of adopted women. Part 8 Meanings and implications: grief and the role of the inner representation of the deceased; attachment and the reactions of bereaved college students - a longitudinal study; dilemma in identification for the post-Nazi generation - my good father was a bad man?. Part 9 Conclusion.

This book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. Chapters examine widows, bereaved children, parents, adoptees & their birth parent & bereavement in Japanese culture.