"The conduct of this research and the preparation of this volume were supported by the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery." -- Acknowledgements.

National League of Families and the development of Family Services /Iris R. Powers -- Army, Navy, and Marine Corps returned prisoners of war : a demographic profile / Edna J. Hunter & James D. Phelan -- Adaptation of the family to the prisoner of war and missing in action experience : an overview / Hamilton I. McCubbin, Edna J. Hunter & Philip J. Metres, Jr. -- Legal plight of the PW/MIA family / J. Robert Nelson -- Children in Limbo / Hamilton I. McCubbin, Edna J. Hunter & Philip J. Metres, Jr. -- Grieving process in MIA wives / Ludwig J. Spolyar -- Religion and the POW/MIA wife / Edna J. Hunter, Hamilton I. McCubbing & Philip J. Metres, Jr. -- Medical aspects of captivity and repatriation / S. William Berg -- Dilemmas and conflicts specific to the military returned prisoners of war / William N. Miller -- Psychiatric residuals of prolonged captivity experience / Richard C.W. Hall & Patrick T. Malone -- Families of returned prisoners of war : some impressions on their initial integration / Philip J. Metres, Jr., Hamilton I. McCubbin & Edna J. Hunter -- Waiting : the dilemma of the MIA wife / Dorothy Benson, Hamilton I. McCubbin, Barbara B. Dahl & Edna J. Hunter -- Maintaining hope : the dilemma of parents of sons missing in action / Hamilton I. McCubbin & Philip J. Metres, Jr. -- Differential Viewpoints : the MIA wife vs the MIA mother / Edna J. Hunter, Hamilton I. McCubbin & Dorothy Benson -- Social and mental health services to families of servicemen missing in action or returned prisoners of war / Hamilton I. McCubbin & Barbara B. Dahl -- Consultant's viewpoints / Floyd S. Meshad, Charles A. Stenger, Robert E. Strange, Leonard M. Zunin.