The Crafting of Grief- Front Cover -- Endorsement -- The Crafting of Grief -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Series Editor's Foreword -- CHAPTER 1: Seeking Beauty in Grief -- The Hardest Decisions -- Focus of This Book -- A Critical Edge -- Grief as Natural -- A Cultural Perspective -- A Narrative Perspective -- Crafting the Experience of Grief -- An Ethical Task -- Concern for the Self -- Becoming -- Agency -- Power Relations -- Asking Questions -- CHAPTER 2: Reality Gains the Day -- The Changing Conversation -- Freud and Grief as an Illness -- Melanie Klein and Object Relations Theory -- The Trauma of Grief -- Grief and Attachment -- The Pathology of Normal -- The Five Stages -- Modern Grief Practice -- The Tasks of Grieving -- The Work of Grief -- A Shifting Tide -- CHAPTER 3: Re-membering -- Membership -- The Construction of Meaning -- Memory -- Postmodern Grief Psychology -- Narrative Therapy and Grief -- Re-membering Practices -- Subjunctive Mood -- CHAPTER 4: Becoming Bereaved -- Suicide, Homicide, and Stories of Identity -- Finding Agency in Suicide and Sudden Death -- Shifting Verbs -- Identity and Troubled Relationships -- CHAPTER 5: Rescuing Implicit Meanings -- The Turn to Meaning -- Meaning and Discourse -- Meaning Reconstruction -- The Absent but Implicit -- Double Listening -- Distinguishing the Absent but Implicit -- An Example of a Counseling Conversation -- Collecting Treasures -- Crafting Vitality -- New Meanings -- Inviting Audience Participation in Narrative Construction -- CHAPTER 6: The Politics of Death -- The Politics of the Therapeutic Relationship -- Curiosity and Respect -- The Politics of Knowledge about Grief -- Social Forces That Exert Influence on the Practice of Grief -- The Politics of Military Deaths -- Disenfranchised Grief -- CHAPTER 7: Elastic Time -- Chronos and Aion.