CONTENTS 
6 Children’s Responses when Conditions are Favourable 276 
Mourning in two four-year-olds 276 
Some tentative conclusions 285 
Differences between children’s mourning and adults’ 290 
Behaviour of surviving parents to their bereaved children 292 
17 Childhood Bereavement and Psychiatric Disorder 
Increased risk of psychiatric disorder 295 
Some disorders to which childhood bereavement contributes 300 
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8 Conditions Responsible for Differences ir 
Sources of evidence 
Evidence from surveys 
Evidence from therapeutic studies 
Outcome 
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'9 Children’s Responses when Conditions are Unfavourable 
Four children whose mourning failed 
Peter, eleven when father died 
Henry, eight when mother died 
Visha, ten when father died 
Geraldine, eight when mother died 
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20 Deactivation and the Concept of Segregated Systems 345 
21 Disordered Variants and Some Conditions Contributing ~~ 350 
Persisting anxiety 
Hopes of reunion: desire to die 
Persisting blame and guilt 
Overactivity : aggressive and destructive outbursts 
Compulsive caregiving and self-reliance 
Euphoria and depersonalization 
[dentificatory symptoms: accidents 
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Effects of a Parent’s Suicide 
Proportion of parents’ deaths due to suicide 
Findings from surveys 
Findings from therapeutic studiec 
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