Psychotherapy and the treatment of cancer patients
Subtitle: bearing cancer in mind
By: Lawrence Goldie with Jane Desmarais.
Contributors: Desmarais, Jane Haville.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hove; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Cancer -- Psychological aspects.; Cancer -- Palliative treatment.; Psychoanalysis.; Terminal care.; Cancer -- Patients -- Hospital care.; Neoplasms -- therapy.; Hospitals.; Palliative Care -- organization & administration.; Psychoanalytic Therapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the front line with cancer; title: Cancer and the psychotherapeutic endeavour; title: The impact of cancer on hospital relationships; title: Cancer in different areas of the body and mind; title: Mind-bending pain; title: Dread and trauma - on being told the truth; title: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the NHS "general" hospital; title: Examining group processes in hospital.