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Linking Objects and Linking Phenomena: A Study of the Forms, Symptoms, Metapsychology, and Therapy of Complicated Mourning

Author(s) : Vamik D. Volkan

Table of Contents

Preface to the reissue
Acknowledgments
About the author
Foreword by Harold F. Searles, M.D.

1. Introduction: The evolution of research into complicated mourning

Part I: Phenomenological and theoretical findings
2. Uncomplicated mourning
3. Complications in the initial stage of the mourning process
4. Complications in the work of mourning: Reactive depression
5. Complications in the work of mourning: Established pathological mourning
6. An example of the linking object: Othello’s handkerchief

Part II: Treatment
7. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy of established pathological mourning
8. The daughters of Goodbar
9. Re-grief therapy
10. Three more examples of re-grief therapy
11. A yellow spot in the bottom of a coffee cup

Part III: Living linking objects and related psychological states
12. Children’s reactions to death: “Negative” outcome – the case of the stone swan
13. Children’s reactions to death: “Positive” outcome – the case of “Immortal Atatürk”
14. A living linking object: The case of the Night of the Living Dead

Part IV: Coda
15. Magical inanimate objects

References
Name index
Subject index