Linking Objects and Linking Phenomena

Vamik Volkan brings a breadth of theory, academic rigor, and clinical study to the subject of 'complicated mourning.' He focuses on the, at times, bizarre ways in which bereaved persons maintain contact with the dead by means of inanimate objects or psychic phenomena invested with magical powers, which he calls 'linking objects' and 'linking phenomena.' For these individuals, their mourning reprod...