The Psychology of DeathIn this extensively updated and revised edition, Dr. Kastenbaum continues to examine and expand upon issues of dying and the ways in which we shape and reshape our conceptions of death. New to the Third Edition are chapters on how we construct death; Death in adolescence and adulthood including discussion on suicide, physician assisted death and Regret Theory and Denial; new approaches to the role of death anxiety, Terror Management Theory, and Edge Theory, and much more. A major contribution to the literature -- this book is must reading for professionals and students of psychology, thanatology, gerontology, social work, and those working in hospice care. |
Contents
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2 How Do We Construct Death? A Developmental Approach | 29 |
3 Reconstructing Death in Adolescence and Adulthood | 63 |
4 Death in the Midst of Life | 97 |
5 A Will to Live and an Instinct to Die? | 161 |
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adolescence adults approach attention attitudes awareness basic become behavior belief challenge child childhood clinical cognitive concept of death conflict construction of death contributed cope dead Death and Dying death anxiety death construct death education death instinct death personification death-instinct theory death-related deathbed scene denial developmental task dreams dualism dying person dying process Eros example experience experienced fact fantasy fear of death feel Freud Furthermore Gay Deceiver hospice hospice care hospice nurse human individual instinct theory interaction interpretation Journal of Death Kastenbaum level of death life-span lives mature McDougall meaning mental mind mortality near-death experiences nurse observations Omega one's pain patients pattern perhaps persistent vegetative personification perspective physicians possible psychology psychosexual development reality relationship religious reported response self-report sense situation society studies suicide Templer terminal illness Terror management theory Thanatos thought tion understanding York young