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Autore: | Kastenbaum Robert |
Titolo: | The psychology of death / / Robert Kastenbaum |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Springer, 2000 |
Edizione: | 3rd. ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina: | 155.9/37 |
Soggetto topico: | Death - Psychological aspects |
Mortality | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The psychology of death |
ISBN: | 1-281-76570-8 |
9786611765705 | |
0-8261-1701-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809642303321 |
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