| Pauline Boss, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota; Fellow in the American Psychological Association, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and National Council on Family Relations; therapist in private practice.
Widely recognized for groundbreaking research on ambiguous loss, Dr. Boss is known as a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of stress. Since 1973, she has researched family stress, especially where there is unclear loss. She summarized her work in a widely acclaimed book, Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief (Harvard University Press, 1999). Dr. Boss’s most recent book, Loss, Trauma, and Resilience (Norton, 2006), presents therapeutic treatment guidelines and is based on her work with families of the physically missing after 9/11 and in Kosovo with the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as her work with families of loved ones missing psychologically—from Alzheimer’s disease, chronic mental illnesses, and traumatic brain injury.
Pauline’s books will be available for purchase at the conference:
Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss (W.W. Norton, 2006).
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief (Harvard University Press, 1999)
For more information, see her website: www.ambiguousloss.com productive lives.
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