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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828825803321

Titolo

The wound of mortality : fear, denial, and acceptance of death / / edited by Salman Akhtar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Jason Aronson, 2010

ISBN

1-282-48010-3

9786612480102

0-7657-0701-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Margaret S. Mahler series

Altri autori (Persone)

AkhtarSalman <1946 July 31->

Disciplina

155.9/37

155.937

Soggetti

Death - Psychological aspects

Fear

Denial (Psychology)

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

The Wound of Mortality; Contents; Acknowledgments; C H A P T E R O N E: Freud's Todesangst and Ghalib's Ishrat-e-Qatra; C H A P T E R T W O: What Happens When You Die?; C H A P T E R T H R E E: Children's Understanding of Death; C H A P T E R F O U R: Symbolic Death, East and West; C H A P T E R F I V E: It Is Not Over When It's Over; C H A P T E R S I X: Fear of Death; C H A P T E R S E V E N: The Dead Self Must Be Reborn; C H A P T E R E I G H T: Living to Die and Dying to Live; C H A P T E R N I N E: Facing Death; C H A P T E R T E N: Eastern Intersubjectivity

C H A P T E R E L E V E N: Demise and IllusionC H A P T E R T W E L V E: Is That All There Is?; References; Index; About the Editor and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.