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Автор Эдвард Джон Мостин Боулби

Attachment and Loss

VOLUME III

LOSS SADNESS AND DEPRESSION

John Bowlby

A Member of the Perseus Books Group

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Copyright © 1980 by The Travistock Institute of Human Relations Published by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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TO MY PATIENTS who have worked hard to educate me

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Contents

Foreword xiii

Acknowledgements xvi

Preface 1

Part I: Observations, Concepts and Controversiesi

1 The Trauma of Loss 71

Prelude 71

Grief in infancy and early childhood 9

Do young children mourn? a controversy 14

Detachment 19

2 The Place of Loss and Mourning in Psychopathology 231

A clinical tradition 23

Ideas regarding the nature of mourning processes, healthy and pathological 24

Ideas to account for individual differences in response to loss 34

3 Conceptual Framework 38

Attachment theory: an outline 38

Stressors and states of stress and distress 41

4 An Information Processing Approach to Defence 44

A new approach 44

Exclusion of information from further processing 44

Subliminal perception and perceptual defence 46

Stages at which processes of defensive exclusion may operate 52

Self or selves 59

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Some consequences of defensive exclusion 64

Conditions that promote defensive exclusion 69

Defensive exclusion: adaptive or maladaptive 72

5 Plan of Work 75

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Part II: The Mourning of Adults

6 Loss of Spouse 81

Sources 81

Four phases of mourning 85

Differences between widows and widowers 103

Note: details of sources 106

7 Loss of Child 112

Introduction 112

Parents of fatally ill children 113

Parents of infants who are stillborn or die early 122

Affectional bonds of different types: a note 124

8 Mourning in Other Cultures 126

Beliefs and customs common to many cultures 126

Mourning a grown son in Tikopia 132

Mourning a husband in Japan 134

9 Disordered Variants 137

Two main variants 137

Chronic mourning 141

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Prolonged absence of conscious grieving 152

Mislocations of the lost person's presence 161

Euphoria 169

10 Conditions Affecting the Course of Mourning 172

Five categories of variable 172

Identity and role of person lost 173

Age and sex of person bereaved 178

Causes and circumstances of loss 180

Social and psychological circumstances affecting the bereaved 187

Evidence from therapeutic intervention 195

11 Personalities Prone to Disordered Mourning 202

Limitations of evidence 202

Disposition to make anxious and ambivalent relationships 203

Disposition towards compulsive caregiving 206

Disposition to assert independence of affectional ties 211

Tentative conclusions 222

12 Childhood Experiences of Persons Prone to Disordered Mourning 214