Clinical examples are interposed with clear general principles. The book is rooted both in the empirical tradition of group therapy research started by Irvin Yalom, and in the belief that caring and meaningful social support is a critical ingredient in medical practice. Group Therapy for Cancer Patients is intended to be a guide for putting the caring back into health care. Their book is rooted in the empirically-validated conviction that meaningful social support is a vital link between medical care and disease outcome. It is at once a model, a manual for clinicians at every level, and a celebration of a kind of helping that actually helps.
Every page displays wisdom, scholarship, humanity, and enabling instruction.
I believe that, for many years to come, this book will represent the gold standard for the group treatment of cancer patients. Its rich examples are humane and lucid, making the book extraordinarily useful in teaching professionals throughout the world how to provide the help it describes. It is fitting that he, with psychologist colleague Catherine Classen, has now literally written the book on how to do it-properly and well. We have come a long way in understanding cancer. Because of advances in medical treatment, cancer patients can ofter be cured.