Trauma, Grief, and Remembrance in the Aftermath of Terrorism

Yordanka Dimcheva is Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham and Research Assistant at the University of Kent.

• IntroductionPart I: When Loss and Trauma CollideChapter 1. The Long Shadow of Traumatic BereavementChapter 2. The ‘Second’ AttackPart II: The Meaning of Your AbsenceChapter 3. Looking for Meaning Among the Ruins of LossChapter 4. Transforming Loss Into an Affective PresenceAttempts at Closure

‘A powerful illustration of how traumatically bereaved parents make meaning through grieving, thereby challenging prevailing clinical models that insist upon “closure.”’ Michael Cholbi, The University of Edinburgh