ABSTRACT
Twenty-five years since publication of the pioneering work on mourners' continuing bonds to the deceased, contemporary bereavement theorists and practitioners have clearly embraced its relevance for grief therapy. The text that follows represents a verbatim transcription of the filmed interview, interspersed with Bob's first-person reflections on the work, which centered strongly on re-accessing and reorganizing Inge's continuing bond with her mother. Therapists fostering reconstruction of meaning with a given client therefore require attunement to relevant family, social and cultural discourses that both support and constrain these efforts and that are subtly or substantially altered by them in turn. In summary, grief therapy informed by a conceptualization of the continuing bond consists of far more than bereavement support for troubling feelings in the wake of loss-although it is that too.
