Includes bibliographies and index.

A literary example of haunting : Dr. Benjamin Spock -- A clinical illustration of some of my main themes -- Knowing, change, and good and bad expectations -- Beginnings and Wordsworth's "immortality ode" -- Change means loss : spring and summer must become winter -- The myth of Demeter and Persephone -- Another dream of death in a garden -- A clinical and a literary example : Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A second literary example : Leonard Woolf -- A third literary example : Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov -- On listening, knowing, and owning -- Gardens, unweeded gardens, and the garden of Eden : death and transience -- "The promise" and Ibsen's A doll's house and Hedda Gabler -- What do I know?

Shengold looks at why some people are resistant to change, even when it seems to promise change for the better. He demonstrates how early childhood relationships with parents can lead to a powerful conviction that change means loss.

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