Robert Langs

Death Anxiety and Clinical Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that death anxiety is neglected - in part, because of treatment failures due to countertransference interferences during treatment. Langs then discusses the technical issues connected with this, whilst introducing the controversial concept that mental activities are derived from immune system activities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 148mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781855751415
• ISBN-10: 1855751410
• Artikelnr.: 21979910

Autorenporträt

Robert Langs

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Death Issues: Basic Perspectives
A ubiquitous but elusive dread
Death themes
manifest and latent
Death anxiety and psychotherapy
Death issues in the clinical situation
Observing and formulating
The emotion-processing mind
Death and the two systems of the mind
Death Issues and the Patient
Death anxiety and the psychotherapy patient
How patients deal with death-related triggers
Selection principles and mental defences
Psychological defences
Communicative defences
The patient
the frame
and issues of death
Death issues and the therapist
Death anxiety and the psychotherapist
How therapists defend against death anxiety
Death anxiety and problems of technique