Loss of an intimate partner through death

Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 305-320

  Wortman, Camille B ^a   Wolff, Karin ^b   Bonanno, George A ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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