ABSTRACT
In Chapter 11, Selden Dunbar Illick describes her continuing efforts to resolve degrees of unresolved emotional attachment with her parents at the time of their illnesses and deaths (two and a half weeks apart). The focus of her chapter is on how chronic illness and death provide an opportunity for further resolving degrees of the unresolved attachment in the family system, in particular with her mother and her father. She also describes how the degrees of unresolved emotional attachment played a part in her marriage and continues in her interactions with her adult children.
