Facing cancer and the fear of death : a psychoanalytic perspective on treatment /
Straker, Norman.
Lanham ; Plymouth : Jason Aronson,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medical section. -- The avoidance of facing death, its consequences to our patients, families, medical students, and young physicians / Norman Straker -- A fellow's perspective on facing death / David P. Yuppa with Norman Straker -- Confronting the fear of death : trying to detoxify death: two memoirs / Daniel Birger, Hillel Swiller, and Norman Straker -- Psychoanalytic section. -- The denial of the fear of death by psychoanalysts / Norman Straker -- Finding meaning in death : terror management among the terminally ill / Molly Maxfield, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon -- Psychoanalytic literature on the treatments of dying patients / Norman Straker -- An update in the psychoanalytic treatment of the cancer patient facing death / Norman Straker -- Case presentations section. -- "... That darkness is about to pass" : the treatment of a dying patient / Abby Adams-Silvan -- Guidelines to live by and rules to break / John W. Barnhill -- "Titration of psychotherapy for patient and analyst" / Alison C. Phillips -- Psychotherapy with a hospitalized patient dying of cancer / M. Philip Luber -- Being a cancer patient in analysis while continuing to work as an analyst / Patricia Plopa.
Cancer
Death
Fear of death.
Cancer
Terminally ill
Psychoanalysis.