The Wound of Mortality

Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death
Herausgeber: Akhtar, Salman

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Produktbeschreibung

Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts to fill this gap by addressing the issue of death in a comprehensive manner. Among questions the contributors raise and seek to answer are: Do children understand the idea of death? How is adolescent bravado related to deeper anxieties about death? Is it normal and even psychologically healthy to think about one's own death during middle age? Does culture-at-large play a role in how individuals conceptualize the role of death in human life? Is death "apart" from or "a part" of life? Enhanced understanding of such matters will help mental health clinicians treat patients struggling with death-related concerns with greater empathy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9780765706997
• ISBN-10: 0765706997
• Artikelnr.: 28035426

Autorenporträt

Edited by Salman Akhtar - Contributions by Ira Brenner; Stanley J. Coen; Calvin A. Colarusso; Hossein M. Etezady; Michelle Foster; Ruth Garfield; Jaswant Guzder; Leon Hoffman M.D.; Eileen Johnson; Albert Kaplan; Ilany Kogan; Tooraj Moradi; Henri Parens an

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Freud's Todesangst and Ghalib's Ishrat-e-Qatra: Two Perspectives
on Death Chapter 2. What Happens When You Die: Three to Four Year Olds
Chatting About Death Chapter 3. Children's Understanding of Death Chapter
4. Symbolic Death: East and West Chapter 5. It Is Not Over When It's Over:
Reflections on Death and Mourning Chapter 6. Fear of Death: Analyst and
Patient in the Same Boat Chapter 7. The Dead Self Must Be Reborn Chapter 8.
Living to Die and Dying to Live: Normal and Pathological Considerations of
Death Anxiety Chapter 9. Facing Death: Intrapsychic Conflict and
Intergenerational Passage Chapter 10. Eastern Intersubjectivity: Relational
Homes for Frailty and Death Chapter 11. Demise and Illusion Chapter 12. Is
That All There Is?: A Concluding Commentary on Psychoanalysis and Death