The topic of cancer : new perspectives on the emotional experience of cancer [E-Book]

Contributor(s):

Burke, Jonathan

Publisher: London : Karnac, 2013Description: 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781782411338
178241133X
0429483465
9780429483462

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

2014 C-392
QZ 200

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Contents:

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

Summary: This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary. The 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. 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.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic book	Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Online		Link to resource	Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 21, 2013).

This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary. The 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. 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.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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