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BEREAVEMENT BEREAVEMENT Personal Experiences and Clinical Refections Edited by Salman Akhtar and Gurmeet S. Kanwal First published in 2017 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2017 to Salman Akhtar and Gurmeet S. Kanwal for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions. The rights of the contributors to be identifed as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-491-6 Typeset by Medlar Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com To the memory of a good friend and great poet Nida Fazli (1938–2016) SA the memory of my father Piara Singh Kanwal (1928–2015) GSK CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xi INTRODUCTION xvii PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE Bereavement: the spectrum of emotional reactions 3 Salman Akhtar SPECIFIC SITUATIONS CHAPTER TWO Death of mother 33 Kerry L. Malawista vii viii CoNTENTs CHAPTER THREE Death of father 57 Thomas Wolman CHAPTER FOUR Death of sibling 83 Frederick H. Lowy CHAPTER FIVE Death of spouse 97 Ruth H. Livingston CHAPTER SIX Death of child 117 Ann G. Smolen CHAPTER SEVEN Death of pet 143 Christie Platt EPILOGUE CHAPTER EIGHT Death: the last chapter 169 Gurmeet S. Kanwal REFERENCES 191 INDEX 207 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are deeply grateful to the distinguished colleagues who contributed to this volume. We appreciate their effort, their sacrifce of time, and their patience with our requirements, reminders, and requests for revisions. One of us (SA) wishes to thank Drs. Rajnish Mago and Stephen Schwartz for helpful comments on this project. The other (GSK) wishes to thank his wife, Bari, for putting up with a preoccupied husband, and for always being his frst editor. Both of us are thankful to Jan Wright for her skillful help in preparing the manuscript of this book, and to Oliver Rathbone and Kate Pearce of Karnac Books for their unerr- ing support of this project throughout various phases of publication. Salman Akhtar & Gurmeet S. Kanwal ix
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