Wound of Mortality (eBook)

Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death

Salman Akhtar (Herausgeber)

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2010
216 Seiten
Jason Aronson, Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-7657-0701-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Death is a much avoided topic. Literature does exist on mourning, but its focus remains upon the death of others. The fact of one's own mortality and its inevitable psychic impact on one's life is not optimally covered either in this literature or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts, The Wound of Morality fills this gap by addressing the issue of death in a comprehensive manner.

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Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts to fill this gap by addressing the issue of death in a comprehensive manner. Among questions the contributors raise and seek to answer are: Do children understand the idea of death? How is adolescent bravado related to deeper anxieties about death? Is it normal and even psychologically healthy to think about one's own death during middle age? Does culture-at-large play a role in how individuals conceptualize the role of death in human life? Is death "e;apart"e; from or "e;a part"e; of life? Enhanced understanding of such matters will help mental health clinicians treat patients struggling with death-related concerns with greater empathy.

Autor

Salman Akhtar is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Freud's Todesangst and Ghalib's Ishrat-e-Qatra: Two Perspectives on DeathChapter 2. What Happens When You Die: Three to Four Year Olds Chatting About DeathChapter 3. Children's Understanding of DeathChapter 4. Symbolic Death: East and WestChapter 5. It Is Not Over When It's Over: Reflections on Death and MourningChapter 6. Fear of Death: Analyst and Patient in the Same BoatChapter 7. The Dead Self Must Be RebornChapter 8. Living to Die and Dying to Live: Normal and Pathological Considerations of Death AnxietyChapter 9. Facing Death: Intrapsychic Conflict and Intergenerational PassageChapter 10. Eastern Intersubjectivity: Relational Homes for Frailty and DeathChapter 11. Demise and IllusionChapter 12. Is That All There Is?: A Concluding Commentary on Psychoanalysis and Death

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Margaret S. Mahler
• Co-Autor: Ira Brenner, Albert Kaplan, Ilany Kogan, Tooraj Moradi, Henri Parens, Josephine Wright, Stanley J. Coen, Calvin A. Colarusso, Hossein M. Etezady, Michelle Foster, Ruth Garfield, Jaswant Guzder, Leon Hoffman, Eileen Johnson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7657-0701-2 / 0765707012
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7657-0701-7 / 9780765707017