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Most serious life events involve actual or potential losses: of a loved one, of material possessions, of health, or of hopes for the future. The ideal adjustment to loss is to accept it, replace that which is lost, and go on living. Between the first pangs of recognition of loss and adaptation to circumstances as they must be, there is an important, painful interval characterized by states of both intrusion and denial.
Data on which this chapter is based has been produced through research supported by an NIMH grant (MH 34337) and an NIMH Clinical Research Center Award (MH 30899-04) to Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute’s Center for the Study of Neuroses, at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. The Center is directed by Mardi Horowitz and codirected by Nancy Kaltreider. The information reported here is also based on the collaborative efforts of Nancy Wilner, Charles Marmar, Anthony Leong, Janice Krupnick, Daniel Weiss, Kathryn DeWitt, John Starkweather, Robert Wallerstein, and Matthew Holden.
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Horowitz, M.J. (1982). Psychological Processes Induced by Illness, Injury, and Loss. In: Millon, T., Green, C.J., Meagher, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3412-5_3
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