The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific expected and accompanied by compensatory supplies it can lead to ego growth. When loss is untimely unexpected and unaccompanied by environmental 'holding ' it becomes traumatic and needs clinical attention. This edited volume brings together a distinguished cadre of international contributors in order to explain the multifaceted and nuanced nature of loss from a variety of different perspectives. These clinicians administrators and writers delineate the great variability in the setting antecedents and consequences of loss. Development-facilitating and development-impeding losses are addressed and so are the losses that seem inevitable as one moves from childhood through adolescence and young adulthood to midlife and old age. Loss experienced by institutional organizations and war-torn societies is also examined. The book’s ultimate focus is clinical: it highlights the many technical dilemmas in working with grieving patients and offers therapeutic strategies aimed at ameliorating their anguish. Loss: Developmental Cultural and Clinical Realms will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists both in practice and training from a variety of different backgrounds. | Loss Developmental Cultural and Clinical Realms