Perspectives on Loss and Trauma

John H. Harvey is Professor of Psychology at the University of Iowa.  Formerly, he taught at Vanderbilt, Ohio State, and Texas Tech Universities and was Educational Affairs Officer at the American Psychological Association (APA) from 1981 to 1982.  He is a social psychologist specializing in the study of close relationships, attribution and account making, and loss and trauma phenomena.  He is a Fellow of Division 8 of the APA and was a Fulbright Research Fellow studying loss in Romania in the spring of 1998.  He has authored and/or edited over 20 books and has published 130 articles and chapters.  He was editor of "Contemporary Psychology" from 1992 to 1998 and was founding editor of the "Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology" and the "Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss."  With Sage, he published the book "Perspectives on Loss and Trauma: Assaults on the Self" in 2002.

"The author has a particular perspective of loss and its consequences that is compelling and already has resulted in a substantial literature. . . . The reputation of the author is a strength that few, if any, social scientists can match . . . . His systematic investigation of loss from a variety of perspectives and in several modes (empirical and literary) bring a breadth of inquiry that has not been addressed in other volumes on the subject."

• 1. Introduction to the Study of Loss and Trauma2. Losing Loved Ones to Death3. Dissolution and Divorce4. Loss Due to Illness and Injury5. Unemployment and Homelessness6. Suicide7. Life Span Losses and Aging8. Violence and War9. The Holocaust and Genocide10. International Perspectives on Loss and Adaptation: The Case of Romania11. Adaptation and Therapeutic ApproachesPerspectives on Personal Adjustment to Loss: An Integrative Commentary