The psychology of death /

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Author / Creator:Kastenbaum, Robert.
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:New York : Springer, 2000.
Description:1 online resource (x, 318 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Death -- Psychological aspects.
Attitude to Death.
Death.
Mort -- Aspect psychologique.
SELF-HELP -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11195010
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ISBN:9780826117014
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Kastenbaum, Robert. Psychology of death. 3rd ed. New York : Springer, 2000 0826113001 9780826113009
Table of Contents:
  • The Psychologist's Death: A Work in Progress
  • How Do We Construct Death? A Developmental Approach
  • Reconstructing Death in Adolescence and Adulthood
  • Death in the Midst of Life
  • A Will to Live and an Instinct to Die?
  • Dying: Toward a Psychological Perspective
  • Deathbed Scenes.