Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I: Observations, Concepts and Controversies
The Trauma of Loss
Prelude
Grief in infancy and early childhood
Do young children mourn? a controversy
Detachment
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The Place of Loss and Mourning in Psychopathology
A clinical tradition
Ideas regarding the nature of mourning
healthy and pathological
[deas to account for individual differences in response
to loss
Conceptual Framework
Attachment theory: an outline
Stressors and states of stress and distress
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An Information Processing Approach to Defence
A new approach
Exclusion of information from further processing
Subliminal perception and perceptual defence
Stages at which processes of defensive exclusion may
operate
Self or selves
Some consequences of defensive exclusion
Conditions that promote defensive exclusion
Defensive exclusion: adaptive or maladaptive
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Plan of Work
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