The disenfranchised : stories of life and grief when an ex-spouse dies / edited by Peggy Sapphire, MS Counselor, commentary by Shirley Scott.

Amityville : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., [2013]

xix, 221 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors' acknowledgments and dedications / Peggy Sapphire and Shirley Scott -- Foreword / Darcy L. Harris, Ph.D. FT -- Editor's preface / Peggy Sapphire, MS Counselor -- Preface to commentaries / Shirley Scott, RN, MS, CT, Grief Counselor -- Introduction / Dr. Kenneth Doka, Ph.D. Gerontology -- Moving toward forgiveness -- Harold / Rosemary Wyman -- Rubber man / Anne Bower -- Selected slides / Elizabeth Kerlikowske -- Never given a name / James McGrath -- "He's dead and I'm not" -- When pawpaw's spearmint went to heaven / Linde Grace White -- The absence of -- / Barbara Traynor -- He's dead and I'm not / Anonymous -- Missing you / Jean Gant -- The ride / Kristina Grey -- " -- a change of worlds -- " -- Barking at the knocks / Bradley Brandts -- Un-grieving a death / MM -- Chronic and acute / Marion Cohen -- The world cracking open-or living atop a cultural, emotional san andreas fault / Deborah Dashow Ruth -- Then, a deep silence / Korkut Onaran -- As the dust settles -- Geography of a marriage / Barbara Hoffman -- Jake / Denise Handlon -- How i survived / Penelope Scambly Schott -- Postmortem / Joyce Lombard -- Ex-humation : digging up the past / Mary Kolada Scott -- Afterword / Peggy Sapphire -- Appendix: grief reactions to the death of a divorced spouse -- Further readings -- Contributors -- Biographies -- Index.