Title The topic of cancer : new perspectives on the emotional experience of cancer / edited by Jonathan Burke ; foreword by Brett Kahr

Published London : Karnac, 2013

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgements					xi
	About the Editor and Contributors					xiii
	Foreword / Brett Kahr					xix
	Preface					xxv
	Introduction / Jonathan Burke					xxxi
pt. I	BEARING THE UNBEARABLE
ch. One	Freud's cancer / Martin Schmidt					3
ch. Two	Understanding the patient with cancer / Dorothy Judd					27
ch. Three	The emotional impact of cancer on children and their families / Jane Elfer					49
ch. Four	What the illness may reveal / John Woods					65
ch. Five	The ill psychotherapist: a wounded healer / Judy Parkinson					77
ch. Six	The cancer nurse specialists' caseload: "contending with the fretful elements" / Anne Lanceley					93
ch. Seven	On survivorship / Jane Eades					109
ch. Eight	Palliative care: what, when, and how? / Robert Twycross					125
ch. Nine	The nature of religious/spiritual concerns in addressing the psychological needs of people with cancer / Jonathan Wittenberg					141
pt. II	CONTAINMENT AND CREATIVITY
ch. Ten	Finding creative expression / Carole Satyamurti					159
ch. Eleven	The cancer memoir: in search of a writing cure? / Anne Karpf					177
	Index					203

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents Part I. Bearing the unbearable -- part II. Containment and creativity Summary This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary. The Topic of Cancer begins with Freud's cancer, widely known of but rarely understood in its historic and analytic context. Psychotherapeutic reflections are then offered on our understanding of the adult and adolescent with cancer. The dilemmas and challenges faced by today's psychotherapist with cancer are explored next and, for the first time in cancer literature, an account of the emotional demands on nurses involved in sensitive Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 21, 2013) Subject Cancer -- Psychological aspects. Adaptability (Psychology) Attitude (Psychology) Psychology and religion. Neoplasms -- psychology Adaptation, Psychological Attitude Patients -- psychology Religion and Psychology Social Support HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine. MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine. Psychology and religion Attitude (Psychology) Adaptability (Psychology) Cancer -- Psychological aspects Form Electronic book Author Burke, Jonathan ISBN 9781782411338 178241133X 0429483465 9780429483462

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