Prologue, Donald Silver, M.D., Issue Editor
- Virginia Woolf: Grief and the Need for Cohesion in To The Lighthouse, Benita Bornstein
- The Archaeology of a Painting: A Visit to the City of the Dead Beneath Picasso's "La Vie", Mary Mathews Gedo, Ph.D.
- Suspension of the Reality Principle in Adaptation and in Creativity, With an Introduction by Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Ping-Nie Pao, M.D.
- Grief and Nothingness: Loss and Mourning in Robert Lowell's Poetry, Jay Martin, Ph.D.
- Death and Transformation in Hamlet, Jerome D. Oremland, M.D.
- The Dark Lady: Sibling Loss and Mourning in the Shakespearean Sonnets, Donald Silver, M.D.
- Discussion: Transience or Nothingness? Ernest S. Wolf, M.D.
Epilogue, Donald Silver, M.D.
