Full Publications Listing

Boss, P. (2006). Loss Trauma, and Resilience:  Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss.  New York, NY:  Norton. This book provides guidelines for therapists working with people who have missing family members. It is a family and community based/ resilience approach. For those of you who are working with Haitians with missing loved ones and no body to bury from the earthquake, the book provides guidelines to help with this unique traumatic loss.

Boss, P. (2002).  Ambiguous Loss:  Working with Families of the Missing.  Family Process,  
41, (pages 14-17).
 
Boss, P. (2002).  Ambiguous Loss in Families of the Missing.  The Lancet,  360, (pages 39-40).
(NOTE: This is a special issue entitled: Medicine and Conflict.)
 
Boss, P. (1991, September). The Other Victims: Families of Hostages.  USA Today Magazine,
120, (pages 68-69).
 
Boss, P. & Sheppard, R. (1988).  An Essay on Family Victimization and Recovery.  Contemporary Family Therapy, 10(4), (pages 202-215).
 
Boss, P. (1983).  Family Separation and Boundary Ambiguity.  The International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 1, (pages 63-72).  
 
Boss, P. (1980). Boundary Ambiguity Intervention for Families of the Iranian Hostages.  
In C. R. Figley (Ed.), Mobilization: Part I, The Iranian Crisis:  Final Report of the Task Force on Families of Catastrophe.  West Lafayette, IN:  Purdue University, Family Research Institute.