Peter J Adams

Reflecting on the Inevitable

Mortality at the Crossroads of Psychology, Philosophy, and Health

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Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting on the Inevitable combines evidence from several disciplinary fields to explore the varying ways each of us engages with the prospect of personal mortality. In each chapter the subtleties and applicability of key ideas are enhanced through a series of illustrative narratives built up around the lives of four people at different ages living in two adjacent houses. Reflecting on the Inevitable is relevant not only to academics of death studies, but also those training and practicing in people-helping professions, as well as anyone experiencing or attempting to make sense of major life events.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780190945008
• ISBN-10: 0190945001
• Artikelnr.: 58410620

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Adams, PhD, has a background in philosophy, social sciences and health sciences. He was trained and practiced for many years as a clinical psychologist, working mostly with adults facing mental health, addictions, violence and life-change issues. His research publications have focused mainly on addictions, public health, unhealthy commodity industries and existential concerns and he has published five previous sole-authored books. He is currently a professor of population health at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Other People Die
Chapter 2: My-Death
Chapter 3: Limits of Intelligibility
Chapter 4: Aversion and Evasion
Chapter 5: A Constant Companion
Chapter 6: Essential Structures
Chapter 7: Passionate Suffusion
Chapter 8: Point-of-Transition
Chapter 9: Self-Generative Process
Chapter 10: Dialogue
Chapter 11: What's to Gain?
Chapter 12: Applications
Conclusion