Managing loss is a complicated and intense process and one that brings people  — directly or indirectly — into treatment. What if what has been lost cannot be seen, cannot be found? This course will explore this world:  the inability to mourn one’s own internal objects. These tenacious internal losses include those who are ambivalent about separating; odes to the dead mother (and the dead father); those who are the receptacles for other's unprocessed loss; and those who try to protect themselves from managing pain by cutting themselves off from any real, alive feeling within. We will discuss some of the seminal ideas about mourning and then look at its clinical impact with both child and adult patients. Using key analytic papers, clinical examples, and film, we will begin to lay out the treacherous terrain of pain and loss utilizing the thinking of Bion, Ferro, Freud, Green, Ogden, and Winnicott.