Divorce and Loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart places loss and mourning at the center of the divorce experience and details how therapists can facilitate mourning through individual therapy and through interventions with parents. The book offers detailed clinical vignettes to illuminate family members’ reactions to divorce and to highlight interventions. Ehrlich also explores how failures of mourning in response to divorce create difficulties for people, including bitter, high-conflict divorces. He examines how therapists can intervene more effectively with difficult divorces and avoid ethical and clinical pitfalls. In addition, the book examines the very strong feelings that divorce elicits in therapists and how to deal with these constructively.

"Ehrlich successfully constructs a bridge between the two literatures of divorce and child custody. . . .His potential to reach parents, clinicians, and legal professionals with this book and through his clinical work is vast. Written in a highly readable and accessible style, unencumbered by excessive jargon, this practical book offers lucid headings, clinical vignettes, and not a little wisdom. It can inform legal and mental health professionals about the unconscious processes displayed in their offices and courtrooms with knowledge that can significantly affect their assessments, recommendations, and decisions." - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

"Divorce and Loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart, offers an important focus for understanding divorce difficulties. . . .[T]he 12 chapters address various issues—stresses between parents and children, entanglements of ex-spouses, and intervention using different treatment formats—Ehrlich analyzes the central problem, regardless of its manifestation. . . .Throughout, the relevant case vignettes presented are helpful. . . .[T]he tight structure and focused content of the book can promote learning, in particular for certain audiences." - PsycCRITIQUES

"Mental health providers searching for a comprehensive text on how to work with families dealing with divorce will find this book invaluable. . . [The author] weaves together in a very comprehensible fashion psychoanalytic concepts with current research to provide a picture of the complexities of divorce and best practices for the field. . . . Overall, therapists searching for a comprehensive primer on assisting clients with divorce will find this book extremely helpful. Ehrlich gracefully interlaces the intricate issues that arise when marriages end with helpful therapeutic suggestions for both adults and children. Replete with poignant clinical vignettes, Ehrlich weaves current thinking from researchers with practical suggestions for clinicians working with divorcing couples and families to produce a text useful to clinicians in the field." - Omega - Journal of Death and Dying