Curing the Dread of Death: 2018
Theory, Research and Practice
Published on 17. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-925644-11-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bowen Hills, QLD
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
421 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925644-11-1 (9781925644111)
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08/2018
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Content
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
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