Life After Loss

Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is the president of the International Dialogue Initiative and a former president of the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, and the American College of Psychoanalysts. He received the Sigmund Freud Award given by the city of Vienna in collaboration with the World Council of Psychotherapy, and in 2015 received the Sigourney Award, honouring achievements for the advancement of psychoanalysis. Elizabeth Zintl was an accomplished journalist who served as chief of staff in the office ot the University of Virginia's president. The Elizabeth Zintl Award from the University of Virginia Women's Center honors the professionalism, creativity and commitment that characterised Elizabeth Zintl's contribution to the university.

Introduction , Uncomplicated Mourning , Crisis Grief , The Work of Mourning , Brutal Gifts , Complicated Mourning , Risk Factors , Stuck in Denial , Perennial Mourners , Engulfed Mourners , A Death in the Family , Resolutions , Adaptations and Therapy , Creative Resolutions