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How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?

The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives.

With a loss of trust in the world as a safe place, a loss of certainty about health care, education, employment, lingering anxieties plague many of us, even as parts of the world are opening back up again. Yet after so much loss, our search must be for a sense of meaning, and not something as elusive and impossible as "closure."

This book provides many strategies for coping: encouraging us to increase our tolerance of ambiguity and acknowledging our resilience as we express a normal grief, and still look to the future with hope and possibility.

ISBN-13: 9781324016816

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Norton - W. W. & Company - Inc.

Publication Date: 12-14-2021

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Pauline Boss, PhD, is emeritus professor at University of Minnesota. She is known worldwide for developing the theory of ambiguous loss and as a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of family stress management. Dr. Boss is the author of Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss and The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Preface xv

Part 1 What Just Happened?

Chapter 1 Ambiguous Loss 3

Chapter 2 The Myth of Closure 17

Chapter 3 Racism as Unresolved Loss 27

Part 2 Staying Strong and Resilient

Chapter 4 Resilience: Our Best Hope in the Face of Ambiguous Loss 39

Chapter 5 The Paradox of Absence and Presence 49

Chapter 6 Both/And Thinking 59

Chapter 7 Six Guidelines for the Resilience to Live With Loss 69

Chapter 8 If Not Closure, What's Normal Grief? 89

Chapter 9 Loss and Change 105

Afterword 117

Notes 121

References 135

Index 163