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Beyond Death Anxiety: Achieving Life-Affirming Death Awareness de Robert W. Firestone

Beyond Death Anxiety: Achieving Life-Affirming Death Awareness

Autor Robert W. Firestone, Joyce Catlett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2009
Combines a theoretical understanding of death anxiety with narratives recounting the life experiences of many individuals to illustrate how people can use an awareness of death to enhance their lives. This book discusses defensive reactions to death anxiety and offers guidelines to practitioners on how to help clients overcome their fear of death.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826105516
ISBN-10: 0826105513
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Springer

Cuprins

Part I: The Impact of Death Awareness on Everyday Life; Chapter 1: Overview; Chapter 2: The Uncharted Terrain of Death; Chapter 3: Children's Dawning Awareness of Death; Chapter 4: Effects of Death Anxiety in Everyday Life; Chapter 5: Literal and Symbolic Defenses against Death Anxiety; Chapter 6: Microsuicide: Death of the Spirit; Part II: Core Defenses against Death Anxiety.

Notă biografică

Robert W. Firestone, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and artist, who has established a comprehensive body of work that explains how defenses formed by children early in life in relation to interpersonal pain are strongly reinforced as they become aware of death.

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"""This book fruitfully serves those looking to apply Ernest Becker's ideas psychotherapeutically, in individual counseling or in group therapy. A capstone to Robert Firestone's 50 years of work in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and psychiatry and to the numerous books written by these authors, Firestone and Catlett show how to apply the themes and implications of the ideas of Ernest Becker in everyday life. Their basic premise is that accepting death is part of developing an affirming and meaningful experience of life. Contributing to the credibility of their presentation is the wealth of clinical evidence and personal experience Firestone and Catlett incorporate."""

"--The Ernest Becker Foundation"

""[F]ascinating and an enjoyable read....steeped in well researched and relevant psychological and sociological perspectives applicable to all social studies areas...""

--Carol Lloyd
University of Chichester

""Firestone and Catlett's work is a marvelous achievement....This volume is both innovative and intrepid. Firestone and Catlett challenge prevailing psychoanalytic views on death and they demolish many of the accepted canons of thanatology and existential psychology. ...This is required reading for anyone who purports to talk about death.""
-- Jerry Piven, PhD
Author of "Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Mortal Terror"

"""[A] towering synthesis of personal and clinical wisdom about death....with a superb overview of the psychology of death and death anxiety....Dr. Firestone draws on the best of the existential-humanistic as well as the psychoanalytic thinkers to address a flourishing path toward self-realization."""

-Kirk J. Schneider, PhD
Author, "Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy" and "Awakening to Awe"
(From the Foreword)

Firestone and Catlett's groundbreaking volume assists mental health practitioners in helping their clients learn to accept and face their mortality. They describe the many defenses of death anxiety that keep individuals from achieving personal fulfillment, and also suggest methods to cope directly with fears of death; an approach that, ironically, can lead to more satisfaction, more freedom, and a greater appreciation for the gift of life.

This book examines the many destructive consequences of death anxiety, including introversion, depression, and withdrawal from life. Throughout the book, the authors demonstrate the importance of achieving what they call life-affirming death awareness.

Key topics include:

  • The dawning awareness of death and its impact on the developing child
  • Literal and symbolic defenses against death anxiety
  • Separation theory and ""the fantasy bond""
  • Challenging the defenses that interfere with living fully
  • Microsuicide: the death of the spirit
  • Breaking with limiting religious dogma and cultural worldviews

With this book, mental health practitioners and their clients will be able to better understand death awareness, overcome the defenses against death anxiety, and ultimately lead richer, more fulfilling lives. "