Three faces of mourning: melancholia, manic defense, and moving on

1. We All Mourn: C'est La Condition Humane / Henri Parens

2. Does Mourning Become Electra? Oedipal and Separation-Individuation Issues in a Woman's Loss of Her Mother / Helen Meyers

3. Can Women Mourn Their Mothers?: Discussion of Meyers' Chapter, "Does Mourning Become Electra? Oedipal and Separation-Individuation Issues in a Woman's Loss of Her Mother" / Corinne Masur

4. Defenses Evoked by Early Childhood Loss: Their Impact on Life-Span Development / Calvin F. Settlage

5. From Mental Pain through Manic Defense to Mourning: Discussion of Settlage's Chapter, "Defenses Evoked by Early Childhood Loss: Their Impact on Life-Span Development" / Salman Akhtar

6. Technical Problems in Analyzing the Mourning Patient / Herbert Schlesinger

7. Changing Hateful Feelings Back to Loving Feelings: The Work of Child Analysis: Discussion of Schlesinger's Chapter, "Technical Problems of Analyzing the Mourning Patient" / William Singletary

8. Obstacle to the Child's Coping with Object Loss / Henri Parens

9. Interrupted Mourning: Discussion of Parens' Chapter, "An Obstacle to the Child's Coping with Object Loss" / Theodore Fallon, Jr.

10. Mourning After: A Concluding Overview / M. Hossein Etezady.