Choices for Living
Subtitle: Coping with Fear of Dying (Path in Psychology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: February 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780306466076
Subjects: Clinical Psychology; Death & dying; Pharmacology; Cognition Disorders; Psychological Aspects Of Bereavement; Psychology; Mental Health; Neuropsychology; Medical / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology; Medical : Mental Health; Psychology & Psychiatry / Neuropsychology; Psychology : Clinical Psychology; Death, Grief, Bereavement; Psychopathology - General; Conduct of life; Fear of death
First sentence: The inevitability of death, the awareness of one's own mortality, and the degree of one's concern with it have been the subjects of countless poems, songs, essays, books, and paintings.
Description: "Although many books are written about bereavement, and focus chiefly on terminal illness, very few are written about the fear of one's own death. In contrast, this book looks at the way in which the fear of death operates on a back burner throughout our lives, and how that influences the choices we make and the paths we follow. The author presents a "moral hierarchy" of behavior used in coping with the fear of death and dying, and uses this as a means of examining adaptive and maladaptive choices.".

"This book is written for academics and professionals in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, philosophy, and politics, and is also relevant to a wide general readership."--BOOK JACKET.