House of pain and hope: Accounts of loss

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We are grateful to Robert Neimeyer, Mary Passmore, Phil Shaver, and Susan Veach for perceptive comments on a draft of this article. The article is based on a talk given by the first author at the Third Meeting of the International Network on Personal Relationships, Normal, Illinois, May 1991. Thanks are extended to Drs. Sue Sprecher, Sandra Metts, and Bill Cupach for making this presentation possible and to the participants in the studies described for their invaluable contribution to knowledge about loss, will, and hope. Editor's Note: This article is the first in a series of occasional invited manuscripts, whose purpose is to promote greater conceptual exchange among thanatologists and colleagues in other disciplines who are concerned with similar issues. In House ofpain and Hope, Harvey and his colleagues outline their provocative research on account-making as a process for finding meaning in and growing from experiences of loss, whether through bereavement, abuse, or relationship dissolution. It is my hope that a keener appreciation of such work in the social sciences will promote the efforts of journal readers whose research and practices confront them with the many forms of grief and its resolution.

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