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Grief and Loss in an Age of Global Trauma: Protest and Despair Versus Attachment and Reorganization

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In a New Yorker article, James Wood analyzed the traumatic events reported in The New York Times on a single day, Thursday, May 15, 2008:

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Nelson, J.K. (2012). Grief and Loss in an Age of Global Trauma: Protest and Despair Versus Attachment and Reorganization. In: Ruderman, E., Tosone, C. (eds) Contemporary Clinical Practice. Essential Clinical Social Work Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4124-3_3

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