Curing the Dread of Death: Theory, Research and Practice

View Full-Size Image	Curing the Dread of Death: Theory, Research and Practice Edited by Rachel E. Menzies, Ross G. Menzies, Lisa Iverach This unique book explores the dread of death and its management from a wide range of perspectives with researchers and writers from a variety of cultures, academic traditions and disciplines across the globe. The fields covered are broad - including palliative care and grief, psychodynamic theory, social, developmental and clinical psychology, sociology and anthropology, counselling practice as well as history, art, and philosophy. Not only is this book a fascinating journey into the very core of the human psyche, it is also a guide to our psychological health. The challenge we all face is to discover pathways to an acceptance of death that enables a life of significance and meaning. Read, learn, and explore what an examination of the dread of death can bring to one's life.


Curing the Dread of Death: Theory, Research and Practice Contents Section 1: Theoretical Issues 1 Impermanence and the human dilemma: Observations across the ages Rachel E. Menzies 2 Fear of death: Nature, development and moderating factors Ross G. Menzies and Rachel E. Menzies 3 Beyond the dread of death: Existentialism's embrace of the meaninglessness of life Gerard Kuperus 4 Love, death, and the quest for meaning Mario Mikulincer 5 The death instinct and psychodynamic accounts of the wound of mortality Ross G. Menzies and Rachel E. Menzies 6 An intelligent design theory of the origins, evolution and function of religion: Toward an integration of existential and evolutionary perspectives Tom Pyszczynski and Sharlynn Thompson 7 Death anxiety and psychopathology Lisa Iverach Section 2: Treatment approaches 8 Death in existential psychotherapies: A critical review Joel Vos 9 Cognitive and behavioural procedures for the treatment of death anxiety Rachel E. Menzies 10 Death acceptance and the meaning-centred approach to end-of-life care Paul T. P. Wong, David F. Carreno, and Beatriz Gongora Oliver 11 Continuing bonds between the living and the dead in contemporary western societies: Implications for our understandings of death and the experience of death anxiety pp. x-x Edith Steffen and Elaine Kasket 12 Treating low self-esteem: Cognitive behavioural therapies and terror management theory Peter J. Helm, Jennifer E. Duchschere and Jeff Greenberg 13 Therapeutic interventions for the dread of death: Personal and clinical reflections Thomas Heidenreich und Alexander Noyon

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