1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454224803321

Autore

Kastenbaum Robert

Titolo

The psychology of death [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Kastenbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2000

ISBN

1-281-76570-8

9786611765705

0-8261-1701-5

Edizione

[3rd. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

155.9/37

Soggetti

Death - Psychological aspects

Mortality

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 The Psychologist's Death: A Work in Progress; 2 How Do We Construct Death? A Developmental Approach; 3 Reconstructing Death in Adolescence and Adulthood; 4 Death in the Midst of Life; 5 A Will to Live and an Instinct to Die?; 6 Dying: Toward a Psychological Perspective; 7 Deathbed Scenes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this extensively updated and revised edition, Dr. Kastenbaum continues to examine and expand upon issues of dying and the ways in which we shape and reshape our conceptions of death. New to the Third Edition are chapters on how we construct death; Death in adolescence and adulthood including discussion on suicide, physician assisted death and Regret Theory and Denial; new approaches to the role of death anxiety, Terror Management Theory, and Edge Theory, and much more. A major contribution to the literature -- this book is must reading for professionals and students of psychology, thanatolo



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450400303321

Titolo

Relative grief [[electronic resource] ] : parents and children, sisters and brothers, husbands, wives and partners, grandparents and grandchildren talk about their experience of death and grieving / / edited by Clare Jenkins and Judy Merry ; foreword by Dorothy Rowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005

ISBN

1-280-26185-4

9786610261857

1-84642-127-6

Edizione

[1st American pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

205 p

Altri autori (Persone)

JenkinsClare <1953->

MerryJudy <1948->

Disciplina

155.9/37

Soggetti

Bereavement - Psychological aspects

Death - Psychological aspects

Families - Psychological aspects

Grief

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph