Preface: an introduction to complicated grief and the nature of this book / Eric D. Miller
Part 1. When and how is grief "complicated?"
Chapter 1. Seeking my brother's voice: holding onto long-term grief through photographs, stories, and reflections / Carolyn Ellis
Chapter 2. The complications of grief: the battle to define modern mourning / Leeat Granek
Chapter 3. The betrayal that was love / Laura K. Kerr
Chapter 4. Tears and tattoos: complex grief revisited / Trish Staples
Part 2: Unresolved and long-lasting grief
Chapter 5. The rhetoric of grief: when a loved one you have never loved is dying / Mary Lynn Navarro
Chapter 6. Luvandwar and letting go / Rose Richards
Chapter 7. Complicating grief with violence / Vanessa Russell
Chapter 8. Complicated grief endures / Elisabeth Hanscombe
Part 3: The death or physical loss of one's child: everlasting or pathological grief?
Chapter 9. When time stops: the courage for joy / Donna M. McDonald
Chapter 10. Communicative coping with ambiguous death: the search for answers and acceptance after the death of a child / Lynne M. Webb and Paige W. Toller
Chapter 11. The lost mother: a refracted memoir / Christina Houen
Part 4: The effects of intergenerational grief
Chapter 12. Transgenerational transmission of the trauma of a pogrom / Mildred Antonelli
Chapter 13. Writing through grief / Rae Luckie
Chapter 14. Prolonged grief disorder in 3-D: an emerging portrait across time and space / James A. Wren
Chapter 15. Stories my father never told me / Olivia Sagan
Part 5: Cultural and societal constraints and complications of grief
Chapter 16. Scapegoating the complicated griever in a toxic world / Kathleen J. Cassity
Chapter 17. Just don't laugh / Parag Sharma
Chapter 18. My brother's keeper / David F. Purnell
Chapter 19. A constant resuscitation of trauma: the ties between technology and complicated grief / Jason Barr
Chapter 20. The silent grief of women: an emptying of the soul / Annette Anderson-Engler
Part 6: Concluding thoughts
Chapter 21. Concluding thoughts / John H. Harvey
