1st Edition
The Disenfranchised Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies
Contributors Acknowledgments and Dedications
Peggy Sapphire and Shirley Scott
Foreword
Darcy L. Harris, Ph.D. FT
Editors Preface
Peggy Sapphire, MS Counselor
Preface to Commentaries
Shirley Scott, RN, MS, CT, Grief Counselor
Introduction
Dr. Kenneth Doka, Ph.D. Gerontologist
SECTION 1 Moving Toward Forgiveness
CHAPTER 1 Harold
Rosemary Wyman
CHAPTER 2 Rubber Man
Anne Bower
CHAPTER 3 Selected Slides
Elizabeth Kerlikowske
CHAPTER 4 Never Given a Name
James McGrath
SECTION 2 "He's Dead and I'm Not"
CHAPTER 5 When Pawpaw's Spearmint Went to Heaven
Linde Grace White
CHAPTER 6 The Absence of . . .
Barbara Traynor
CHAPTER 7 He's Dead and Im Not
Anonymous
CHAPTER 8 Missing You
Jean Gant
CHAPTER 9 The Ride
Kristina Grey
SECTION 3. A Change of Worlds
CHAPTER 10 Barking at the Knocks
J. Bradley Brandts
CHAPTER 11 Un-grieving a Death
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CHAPTER 12 Chronic and Acute
Marion Cohen
CHAPTER 13 The World Cracking Open or Living Atop a Cultural, Emotional San Andreas Fault
Deborah Dashow Ruth
CHAPTER 14 Then, a Deep Silence
Korkut Onaran
SECTION 4 As the Dust Settles
CHAPTER 15 Geography of a Marriage
Barbara Hoffman
CHAPTER 16 Jake
Denise Handlon
CHAPTER 17 How I Survived
Penelope Scambly Schott
CHAPTER 18 Postmortem
Joyce Lombard
CHAPTER 19 Ex-humation: Digging Up the Past
Mary Kolada Scott
Afterword
Peggy Sapphire
APPENDIX
Grief Reactions to the Death of a Divorced Spouse
Further Readings
Contributors
Biographies
Sapphire, Doka, Scott
Index
Biography
Sapphire, Peggy; Scott, Shirley
