| Description |
1 online resource (172 pages) |
| Contents |
Medical section. -- The avoidance of facing death, its consequences to our patients, families, medical students, and young physicians / Norman Straker -- A fellow's perspective on facing death / David P. Yuppa with Norman Straker -- Confronting the fear of death : trying to detoxify death: two memoirs / Daniel Birger, Hillel Swiller, and Norman Straker -- Psychoanalytic section. -- The denial of the fear of death by psychoanalysts / Norman Straker -- Finding meaning in death : terror management among the terminally ill / Molly Maxfield, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon -- Psychoanalytic literature on the treatments of dying patients / Norman Straker -- An update in the psychoanalytic treatment of the cancer patient facing death / Norman Straker -- Case presentations section. -- " ... That darkness is about to pass" : the treatment of a dying patient / Abby Adams-Silvan -- Guidelines to live by and rules to break / John W. Barnhill -- "Titration of psychotherapy for patient and analyst" / Alison C. Phillips -- Psychotherapy with a hospitalized patient dying of cancer / M. Philip Luber -- Being a cancer patient in analysis while continuing to work as an analyst / Patricia Plopa |
| Summary |
In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker's psychoanalytic perspective on facing cancer and the fear of death brings into sharp focus the emotional conflicts of doctors, psychoanalysts, and all mental health professionals as they interface with dying patients and their families. Remedies are offered for lessening the emotional burden on those treating patients facing death. These remedies should decrease the number of futile treatments at the end of life, lessen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from electronic title page (ebrary, viewed on February 24, 2015) |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Psychological aspects.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Fear of death.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Psychology
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Terminally ill -- Psychology
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Psychoanalysis.
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Neoplasms -- psychology
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Attitude to Death
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Health Personnel -- psychology
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Psychoanalysis
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Survivors -- psychology
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Terminally Ill -- psychology
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psychoanalysis.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
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MEDICAL -- Oncology.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Psychology
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Cancer -- Psychological aspects
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Death -- Psychological aspects
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Fear of death
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Psychoanalysis
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Terminally ill -- Psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Straker, Norman, editor
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| ISBN |
9780765709660 |
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076570966X |
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076570966X |
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