Facing cancer and the fear of death
Subtitle: a psychoanalytic perspective on treatment
By: edited by Norman Straker
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780765709653; 9780765709660
Subjects: Survivors; Terminally Ill; Psychology; Attitude to Death; Neoplasms; Psychoanalysis; Health Personnel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where we are now : the avoidance of death, its consequences to our patients, families, medical students, young physicians / Norman Straker; title: A psycho oncology fellow's perspective on facing death / David Yuppa & Norman Straker; title: Confronting the fear of death : trying to detoxify / Norman Straker; title: Two memoirs / Dan Birger, Hillel Swiller; title: The denial of death by psychoanalysts / Norman Straker; title: Finding meaning in death : terror management among the terminally ill / Molly Maxfield, Tom Pyszczynski & Sheldon Solomon; title: The psychoanalytic literature on the treatment of dying patients / Norman Straker; title: An update in the psychoanalytic treatment of cancer patients facing death / Norman Straker; title: "That the darkness is about to pass" the treatment of a dying patient / Abby Adams Silvan; title: Guidelines to live by and rules to break / John W. Barnhill; title: "Titration of psychotherapy for patient and analyst" / Alison C. Phillips; title: Psychotherapy with a hospitalized patient dying of cancer / Philip Luber; title: Being a cancer patient in analysis, while continuing to work as an analyst / Patricia Plopa.