Choices for Living

Coping with Fear of Dying

Thomas S. Langner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2002
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-46607-6 (ISBN)

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Although many books are written about bereavement, very few are written about the fear of one's own death and most of these focus chiefly on terminal illness. In contrast, this book looks at the ways in which the fear of death operates on a back burner throughout our lives and how it influences the choices we make and the paths that we follow in life. The author presents a `moral hierarchy' of behavior used in coping with the fear of death and dying.

Attitudes Toward Death.- The Probable Causes of the Fear of Dying.- Creativity.- Love.- Humor.- Intellectualization.- Procreation.- Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior.- Living Life to the Hilt, Living Better, Living Longer.- Group Membership.- Religion.- Mementos and Monuments.- Counterphobic Behavior.- Gambling.- Dissociation.- Repression/Denial.- Suicide.- Projection, Killing, and the Problem of Evil.- Summary and Conclusions.

Reihe/Serie	Path in Psychology
Zusatzinfo	XV, 308 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-306-46607-4 / 0306466074
ISBN-13	978-0-306-46607-6 / 9780306466076
Zustand	Neuware