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Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief. Pauline Boss. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1999. 140 pp. ISBN 0-674-01738-2. $22.00 cloth.
Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss is an easyto-read book addressing the difficulty people and families have when faced with losses that are unclear. She covers many examples of "ambiguous losses," including missing soldiers, missing children, patients with Alzheimer's and other chronic diseases, divorce, absent parents, and immigrant families. Losses can be ambiguous when family members don't know if they will ever see or talk with a loved one again (as in the case of missing relatives and immigrant families) or when a loved one is physically present but is no longer psychologically present (as in the case of Alzheimer's disease).
The case examples...