Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-286) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. A new metapsychology for clinical phenomenology and psychic health -- 3. A phenomenological theory of developmental mourning -- 4. Mourning as explicit and implicit in psychoanalytic theory : Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Ronald Fairbairn -- 5. Mourning as implicit and explicit in psychoanalytic theory : John Bowlby, Michael Balint, and D.W. Winnicott -- 6. The case of June, part 1 : finding a new identity through the mourning of traumatic loss and guilt, primal rage, and poignant regret -- 7. The case of June, part 2 : a mournful and spiritual journey : spiritual and sexual evolution -- 8. June's evolution in later years of treatment : transformation through mourning in developmental, transference, and life change terms -- 9. The case of Phillip, part 1 : seven generations of grief -- 10. The case of Phillip, part 2 : the spiritual evolution -- 11. The case of Laura, part 1 : mourning as the poetry of female eroticism : homoerotic evolutions of a homosexual woman within developmental mourning -- 12. The case of Laura, part 2 : strands and cycles of mourning and unrequited love : modes of mourning -- 13. Mourning and creativity : a journey through a male artist's development -- 14. The divine, the deviant and the diabolical : a journey through a female artist's paintings during her participation in a creative process group -- 15. Conclusion.

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