Introduction: Meaning Reconstruction and Loss / Robert A. Neimeyer
Pt. I. Breaking Ground: Toward a Fresh Theory of Grieving
Ch. 1. Beyond Decathexis: Toward a New Psychoanalytic Understanding and Treatment of Mourning / George Hagman
Ch. 2. Relearning the World: Making and Finding Meanings / Thomas Attig
Ch. 3. Meaning Making in the Dual Process Model of Coping With Bereavement / Margaret S. Stroebe and Henk Schut
Pt. II. Re-Establishing Relationships: Context and Connection
Ch. 4. Inner Representation of the Dead Child in the Psychic and Social Narratives of Bereaved Parents / Dennis Klass
Ch. 5. Family Construction of Meaning / Janice Winchester Nadeau
Ch. 6. Death of a Child With a Developmental Disability / Elizabeth Moulton Milo
Pt. III. Transcending Trauma: Growth After Loss
Ch. 7. Tormented and the Transformed: Understanding Responses to Loss and Trauma / Christopher G. Davis
Ch. 8. Posttraumatic Growth: The Positive Lessons of Loss / Lawrence G. Calhoun and Richard G. Tedeschi
Ch. 9. Spiritual Resources Following a Partner's Death From AIDS / T. Anne Richards
Ch. 10. Positive Outcomes of Losing a Loved One / Thomas T. Frantz, Megan M. Farrell and Barbara C. Trolley
Pt. IV. Healing Stories: Research and Reflexivity
Ch. 11. Shattered Beliefs: Reconstituting the Self of the Trauma Counselor / Marla J. Arvay
Ch. 12. Embracing Their Memory: The Construction of Accounts of Loss and Hope / John H. Harvey, Heather R. Carlson and Tamara M. Huff / [et al.]
Ch. 13. Research as Therapy: The Power of Narrative to Effect Change / Bronna D. Romanoff
Pt. V. Renegotiating the World: Meaning Making in Grief Therapy
Ch. 14. Language of Loss: Grief Therapy as a Process of Meaning Reconstruction / Robert A. Neimeyer
Ch. 15. Construing Stress: A Constructivist Therapeutic Approach to Posttraumatic Stress Reactions / Kenneth W. Sewell and Amy M. Williams
Ch. 16. Trauma, Grief, and Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse / Stephen J. Fleming and Sheri Kathleen Belanger
Ch. 17. Videography: Re-Storying the Lives of Clients Facing Terminal Illness / Sandra A. Rigazio-DiGilio.