1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462993303321

Autore

Burke Jonathan (Psychotherapist)

Titolo

The Topic of Cancer / / Jonathan Burke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-90823-7

0-429-48346-5

1-78241-133-X

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

616.9

616.9/94

616.994

Soggetti

Cancer - Psychological aspects

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

part I. Bearing the unbearable -- part II. Containment and creativity.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary. Once suppressed, akin to a taboo, the topic of cancer is now very much in the public consciousness. The prevalence of the disease and well-publicised medical advances in its treatment demand it. Topic of Cancer begins with Freud's cancer, widely known of but rarely understood in its historic and analytic context. Psychotherapeutic reflections are then offered on our understanding of the adult and adolescent with cancer, and the challenges of sustaining a thoughtful presence in the face of the trauma experienced when a child is diagnosed with cancer, and during treatment. The dilemmas and challenges faced by today's psychotherapist with cancer are explored next and, for the first time in cancer literature, an account of the emotional demands on nurses involved in sensitive, intimate care. With an increasing number of people living longer with cancer, “survivorship� and palliative care are the focus of the chapters that follow.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967478603321

Autore

Twain Mark <1835-1910.>

Titolo

Autobiography of Mark Twain . Volume 1 / / editor: Harriet Elinor Smith ; associate editors: Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-75441-6

9786612754418

0-520-94699-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (775 p.)

Collana

The Mark Twain Papers

Classificazione

LIT004020

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithHarriet Elinor

GriffinBenjamin <1968->

FischerVictor <1942->

FrankMichael B

GoetzSharon K

MyrickLeslie Diane

Disciplina

818/.4/0924

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Manuscripts and Dictations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations, 1870-1905 -- Autobiography Of Mark Twain -- Explanatory Notes -- Appendixes -- Note On The Text -- Word Division in This Volume -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away-to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion-to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"-meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank



mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Editors: Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick