248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary. Once suppressed, akin to a taboo, the topic of cancer is now very much in the public consciousness. The prevalence of the disease and well-publicised medical advances in its treatment demand it.
Topic of Cancer begins with Freud's... Read more
Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Bearing the Unbearable , Freud’s cancer , Understanding the patient with cancer , The emotional impact of cancer on children and their families , What the illness may reveal , The ill psychotherapist: a wounded healer , The cancer nurse specialists’ caseload: “contending with the fretful elements” , On survivorship , Palliative care: what, when, and how? , The nature of religious/spiritual concerns in addressing the psychological needs of people with cancer , Containment and Creativity , Finding creative expression , The cancer memoir: in search of a writing cure?
Biography
Jonathan Burke
