Ann Orbach

Life, Psychotherapy, and Death

The End of Our Exploring

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Produktbeschreibung

In this rich and humane book Ann Orbach explores, from the point of view of a psychotherapist, the subject of death in all its manifestations. Her intention is to look at death and what it means to us, as a means of coming to terror with the inevitable, and helping others to do so. She discusses not only existential questions such as fear of death (as a state of non-being) and fear of dying, but cultural attitudes and religious beliefs, dreams and near death experiences, and the consequences of the manner of death. She looks at death in war, suicide, euthanasia, terminal illness, accident and murder, as well as the death of children and the consequent needs of parrots and siblings. She discusses the way in which a therapist can help the dying and their familia when to intervene and how, and when not to do so. She also looks at work with people who have caused a death, either deliberately or accidentally. Welcoming the lessening of taboos surrounding the subject of death, Ann Orbach urges that all aspects of death should be approaches with honesty and openness, with children just as much as with adults. She leaves us with the question of what dies with the body: is there anything left of our humanity that does not die?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781853025532
• ISBN-10: 1853025534
• Artikelnr.: 21368383

Autorenporträt

Ann Orbach is a practising psychotherapist who is interested in working with older people and exploring attitudes to death. She is the author of Not Too Late, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. All Must Die. No escape. Seeking therapy on the way to death. To be or
not to be - is there a death instinct? 2. Out of Season. Fragile
beginnings. What children know and what they can talk about. Answering
children's questions. The first bereavements. Jonathan's story. Children
who die. Parents whose children die. Slaughter of the innocents. The story
of two mothers. 3. A Plague Called AIDS. Pandemic. What is AIDS and where
does it come from? Health education, tests and counselling. Perry's story.
AIDS in the family. 4. Sudden Death. Death by proxy. Meeting the shadow.
Murder in mind. Forensic psychotherapy. Working with murderers. Capital
punishment - the outcasts. Suicide. Suicide, psychotherapy and the saving
of souls. Euthanasia. War. The manner of our dying. 5. Slow Death. Terminal
illness. To tell or not to tell? Natural death. Where to die. Fear. 6.
Partly Living. To eat or not to eat? The dying brain. The death of meaning.
7. In Fullness of Time. Being old. Dying of old age. Life review.
Counselling, psychotherapy, analysis. 8. A Time to Mourn. Mourning on the
way to death. Each bereavement is unique. Funeral options. 9. On the Edge.
Dreams of death. View from the edge. 10. Who Dies? Ego. Self. Body, soul
and spirit. Individuation. Can we still believe in an afterlife? Appendix.
References. Index.