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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809642303321

Autore

Kastenbaum Robert

Titolo

The psychology of death / / 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

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