The wound of mortality fear, denial, and acceptance of death

Death is a much avoided topic. Literature does exist on mourning, but its focus remains upon the death of others. The fact of one's own mortality and its inevitable psychic impact on one's life is not optimally covered either in this literature or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis...

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Other Authors: Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, MD : Jason Aronson 2010.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Margaret S. Mahler series.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798023406719
Table of Contents:
  • The Wound of Mortality; Contents; Acknowledgments; C H A P T E R O N E: Freud's Todesangst and Ghalib's Ishrat-e-Qatra; C H A P T E R T W O: What Happens When You Die?; C H A P T E R T H R E E: Children's Understanding of Death; C H A P T E R F O U R: Symbolic Death, East and West; C H A P T E R F I V E: It Is Not Over When It's Over; C H A P T E R S I X: Fear of Death; C H A P T E R S E V E N: The Dead Self Must Be Reborn; C H A P T E R E I G H T: Living to Die and Dying to Live; C H A P T E R N I N E: Facing Death; C H A P T E R T E N: Eastern Intersubjectivity
  • C H A P T E R E L E V E N: Demise and IllusionC H A P T E R T W E L V E: Is That All There Is?; References; Index; About the Editor and Contributors