Aronson S
Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
Psychoanal Study Child. 1996;51:422-35. doi: 10.1080/00797308.1996.11822439.
AIDS has left tens of thousands of children with dead or dying parents. This epidemic is forcing us to take a new look at loss in childhood, paying attention to the impact of the social and cultural forces in these children's surroundings on their internal/psychological worlds. This chapter is a preliminary attempt to examine these factors, integrating psychoanalytic concepts, the sociocultural context, and treatment issues. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate throughout.