Crises of meaning in trauma and loss

Loss of the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 13-30

  Landsman, Irene Smith ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203890240-7     Document Type: Chapter

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