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In a world of constant change, the experience of loss is inevitable, but disastrous psychic consequences arising from it sometimes are not. Although felt loss may give rise to a sense that meaning and relevancy, too, are gone, some people manage to find an inner strength that allows them to weather the storm and reintegrate into life’s flow. Other people, in contrast, become paralyzed. They may be further traumatized, moreover, by their observations of more resilient people who, having experienced comparable loss, nevertheless, move forward with their lives.
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Kreuter, E.A., Steckman, L.A. (2013). Afterword. In: Fostering Resilience for Loss and Irrelevance. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5773-2_13
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