Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient

E Mark Stern

Contents The Widowed and the Widowed Patient: A Preface (E. Mark Stern)



The Widow as Survivor and “Killer” (E. Mark Stern)
On Inspiration (Sharon Hymer)
Widowhood: Integrating Loss and Love (Ruth S. Farber)
When the Spouse Is Dead: The Alternative Approach of Experiential Psychotherapy (Alvin R. Mahrer, Terry M. Howard, Patricia A. Gervaize, and Donald M. Boulet)
Psychotherapist and Widower (Roy Persons)
Separation, Widowhood, and Divorce (Gladys Natchez)
The Loss Unit: Reflections on Widowhood (Daphne Barnes)
Treating the Widowed Client With Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) (Albert Ellis)
An Agenda for Treating Widowed Patents (Betty C. Buchsbaum)
Widowhood: The Labor of Grief (Robert J. Dunn and Amelia Vernon)
The Ties That Bind: Loyalty and Widowhood (David B. Seaburn)
Widowhood as a Time for Growth and Development (Jeanette Hainer)
Whom God Has Joined (Bruce J. Schell)
My Granddaughters Cope With the Death of Their Father (Neil Lamper)
Therapists Raised by Widowed Fathers (Merle R. Jordan)
Treating the Bereaved Spouse: A Focus on the Loss Process, the Self, and the Other (Simon Shimshon Rubin)
The Construing Widow: Dislocation and Adaptation in Bereavement (Linda L. Viney)
Object Loss and Pathalogical Consequence: A Study in the Psychological Treatment of Loss and Self-Injury (Louis Birner)
The Fullness of Emptiness (Edward A. Wise)