Death and Chronic Illness in the Family : Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives (Paperback)

Foreword Rober J. Noone Preface Acknowledgements About the Editors Contributors PART I: BOWEN THEORY PERSPECTIVES ON DEATH IN THE FAMILY 1. Family Reaction to Death Murray Bowen 2. Death and Differentiation in the Family Peter Titelman 3. A Historical Background for Bowen’s Perspective on Death in the Family System Anne S. McKnight 4. Toward an Objective View of Mortality: Biology, History, and the Emotional System Stephanie J. Ferrera PART II: DEATH IN THE THERAPIST’S OWN FAMILY 5. Emotional Shock Wave and Differentiation of Self Sydney K. Reed 6. A Father’s Early Death: A Family’s Response Kent E. Webb 7. Mom’s Committed Suicide: Now What? Anthony J. Wilgus 8. Death as a Catalyst for Reconstructing the Family Emotional System Catherine M. Rakow 9. Territorial Behavior: Inheritance, and Death in the Family Anonymous PART III: CHRONIC ILLNESS IN THE THERAPIST’S OWN FAMILY 10. A Systems View of Chronic Illness in a Spouse and Family Eileen B. Gottlieb 11. Unresolved Emotional Attachments in a Family with Chronic Illness and Death Selden Dunbar Illick 12. Alzheimer’s Disease in the Family Peter Titelman 13. No Sympathy: A Response to a Physical Disability Susan W. Graefe PART IV: DEATH IN CLINICAL PRACTICE 14. Family Reaction to Death in Clinical Practice: An Approach Based on Bowen Theory Laura Havstad 15. Family Reaction to Death: Variation in Differentiation of Self Michael J. Sullivan 16. Emotional Process and the Management of Chronic Illness and Death David S. Hargrove and Elizabeth Grady 17. Death and AIDS: Families and Society Andrea Maloney Schara 18. A River of Silence: A Son Defines Himself in Relation to his Dying Father Kendall Baker Appendix I Appendix II